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Omnicron COVID variant: Curbs on southern Africa 'a kind of travel apartheid', says UN chief
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United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has slammed restrictions targeting southern African nations as a form of racist travel segregation.
European nations are among countries that have imposed travel curbs after the detection of the COVID variant Omnicron.
"We have the instruments to have safe travel," said Guterres following talks with African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat.
"Let's use those instruments to avoid this kind of ... of, allow me to say, travel apartheid -- which I think is unacceptable."
Apartheid was a brutal system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa in which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the same political and economic rights as white people and
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