Op-Ed: Omicron is already in the U.S. Discriminatory travel bans for southern Africa need to end

Op-Ed: Omicron is already in the U.S. Discriminatory travel bans for southern Africa need to end (via latimesopinion)

compared with 72% in the U.S. and Canada and 63% in Europe.

Now that the variant has reached America, it is incumbent upon the U.S. to set the record straight by lifting the senseless southern Africa travel ban immediately. Help tell a new story — one rejecting racism to praise South Africans for their efforts to protect not only their country, but all of humanity. That’s an attitude other countries would do well to emulate amid a global crisis.

April L. Raphiou is communications director at the Duke Center for International Development in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

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