Do not panic. This was a call made by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday night in the face of increasing Covid-19 cases in South Africa.
“I could not agree more with president [Akufo-Addo] where he says we have got to get the vaccination levels up and this is where the developed economies have been so greedy as to have hoarded vaccines and not made vaccines available.
Ramaphosa said he had placed a number of calls to leaders of the country who have imposed travel bans against South Africa asking them to review their decisions because the virus had subsequently spread all over the world. Ramaphosa is hoping there will be a positive response to his request to have the bans lifted immediately because “the bans which have been imposed on South Africa and countries in southern Africa is completely unscientific and completely unacceptable”.