Malawi president says Omicron travel bans are due to ‘Afrophobia’

“We are all worried about the new covid variant and owe the South African scientists thanks for identifying it before anyone else did,” Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera wrote in a statement. Facebook post on Sunday. “But unilateral travel bans now apply to [Southern African Development Community] countries of the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United States of America, Australia and others are not invited. Vigilance measures must be based on science and not on Afrophobia”.