{"id":9978,"date":"2021-12-02T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:46:10","slug":"un-chief-slams-covid-19-travel-apartheid-as-unacceptable-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/un-chief-slams-covid-19-travel-apartheid-as-unacceptable-watch","title":{"rendered":"UN chief slams COVID-19 \u2018travel apartheid\u2019 as unacceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that travel restrictions imposed over COVID-19 that isolate any one country or region as \u201cnot only deeply unfair and punitive \u2013 they are ineffective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in New York, Guterres said the only way to reduce the risk of transmission while allowing for travel and economic engagement was to repeatedly test travellers, \u201ctogether with other appropriate and truly effective measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the instruments to have safe travel. Let\u2019s use those instruments to avoid this kind of, allow me to say, travel apartheid, which I think is unacceptable,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p>Omicron was first identified in southern Africa and many countries, including the United States and Britain, have announced travel curbs and other restrictions on the region. Africa has some of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates worldwide due to a lack of access to doses.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres has long warned about the dangers of vaccine inequality around the world and that low immunisation rates are \u201ca breeding ground for variants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese travel bans are not justified,\u201d said African Union Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat at the joint news conference with Guterres after the annual meeting between the United Nations and the African Union.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that travel restrictions imposed over COVID-19 that isolate any one country or region as \u201cnot only deeply unfair and punitive \u2013 they are ineffective.\u201d Speaking to reporters in New York, Guterres said the only way to reduce the risk of transmission while allowing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-9978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UN chief slams COVID-19 \u2018travel apartheid\u2019 as unacceptable - 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