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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s Health Ministry on Friday attacked a global rush to impose travel bans to slow the spread of a new Covid variant as “draconian,” unscientific and contrary to WHO advice. The strain, renamed Omicron, has been blamed for a surge in fresh cases in South Africa, but has already cropped up in Hong Kong, Belgium, Israel and Botswana. “We believe that some of the reactions have been unjustified,” Health Minister Joe Phaahla told a news conference, accusing some leaders whom he did not name of seeking a “scapegoat.” Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands …