Ania Rahaman

The article annotated the South African ministry's complaints on the reaction of other countries towards South Africa after it detected the Omicron variant of Covid-19. The South African ministry is seeing the ban of flights from South Africa in several countries as getting punished for the scientific excellence they have displayed by swiftly detecting the new variant. They backed their claims by comparing their case with the other variants found in other parts of the world, and pointed out the difference in the attitude of other countries towards them. The ministry also insisted that with their testing capacity and rapid vaccination programs, they are as well capable as other countries are in handling the pandemic.