Afia Hasan Anonna

South Africa complained yesterday that it is being "punished" from detecting a new Covid-19 variant omicron which the World Health Organization (WHO) has termed a "variant of concern" "A number of countries around the world to ban flights from South Africa,following the discovery of the variant is akin to punishing south africa for its advanced genomic sequencing and the ability to deted new variant quicker "the foreign affairs ministry said in a statement. Israel and Belgium said that South Africa was detected this virus.Government insisted that South Africa's capacity to test and ramed up vaccination programme can be managing the pandemic. 2.95 million cases and 89,783 deaths, South Africa by the pandemic.