National Assembly Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has expressed disappointment at the travel restrictions imposed on certain African countries, including South Africa, by some countries in light of the identification of the new COVID-19 variant.
The Omicron variant was identified by South African scientists last week.
The identification of the variant has created panic around the world, resulting in inbound and outbound travel bans against southern African countries.
Mapisa-Nqakula expressed her disappointment at the 7th Brics Parliamentary Forum which was held on the side-lines of the 143rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) currently underway in Madrid, Spain.
She is leading a six-member multiparty delegation of the South African Parliament to the Assembly.
She said that COVID-19 was entrenching stereotypes in ways that could never have been imagined. The travel…