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Aside from the steep cost of being forced to quarantine after returning from South Africa, conditions inside these hotels leave a great deal to be desired.
Anthony Fauci said the US is “reviewing its travel ban on South Africa and other African countries daily”.
The UK’s “kneejerk” reaction to the detection of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in South African labs has caused chaos for those wanting to travel this holiday season.
Since the detection of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa, various countries have put travel restrictions in place.
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The UK’s decision to keep South Africa on its ‘red list’ has been widely criticised, with Wits University vaccinologist Professor Shabir Madhi calling it “irrational”.
Last week, the UK announced that South Africa would remain on its travel ‘red list’. The reasoning doesn’t hold up under basic scrutiny.
There’s a scheduled change for the UK’s “traffic light” system pending, and it could spell great news for South Africans who want to travel to and from the UK.
The petition to get South Africa off of the UK’s red list needed 10 000 signatures to force the UK government to respond, with that number already comfortably exceeded.
South Africa’s economy is losing out on millions of rands every day that the country remains on the UK’s ‘red list’.
South Africans are still on the UK’s red list, which means there are really strict (and very costly) travel requirements for Saffas touching down.
Despite widespread concern that we could be looking at a return to stricter lockdown measures, some restrictions were actually lifted.
South Africa has revised the number of countries allowed to visit, with more than half removed from the ‘high-risk’ category.
Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi announced on Sunday that 11 countries would now be allowed to enter South Africa visa-free, but five of those are on the ‘red list’.
Minister Naledi Pandor has announced the complete list of countries banned from entering South Africa for leisure travel.