South Africa should be praised for the quality of its science and transparency around the detection the Omicron variant, not face travel bans, said World Health Organization spokesperson Dr. Margaret Harris.
“South Africa should get a gold medal for the quality of its science and the quality of its transparency,” Harris told CNN Monday.
“We have not seen nearly enough of that, of transparency particularly. And indeed, to then make South Africa feel that doing all the right things leads to a very bad outcome is not good,” she added.
Harris argued that this response is also bad for the rest of the world, acting as a deterrent to be transparent.
“Other countries will then feel, ‘why would we come out and say we’ve got this issue, we’ve got this problem,’ if they see this sort of consequence,” she said.
Sourced from: CNN and Aljazeera.
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