Julia 🇩🇪❤️🇿🇦

🇩🇪❤️🇿🇦 #loveisnottourism

[loveisnottourism @lovenottourism2]

In USA ist Omikron vorherrschend, in D ist Omikron angekommen, aber Südafrika ist Virusvariantengebiet, trotz rückläufiger Zahlen, weil es die Variante richtig sequenzieren konnte? Wieso wird Südafrika nicht wie die USA zum Hochrisikogebiet? @Karl_Lauterbach @rki_de @tagesschau

[loveisnottourism @lovenottourism2]

all I want for Christmas is to see my boyfriend from SA 🇿🇦 with whom I don’t share the same household because we are in a long distance relationship& 🇩🇪 doesn’t allow him to enter the country @NancyFaeser @Karl_Lauterbach @rki_de @AuswaertigesAmt @BMI_Bund #loveisnottourism

[Katy Katopodis @KatyKatopodis]

What a blatant,awful lie! Wow!

Allow us to correct you @sajidjavid … it was the brilliant & ETHICAL SA scientists who alerted the world to #omicron.

Your Govt simply didn’t respect our scientists.
You immediately closed yr borders to us in a shocking display of discrimination

[Dr. Ayoade Alakija @yodifiji.bsky.social @yodifiji]

Lifting the asymmetric travel restrictions that disproportionately affect African countries must be done immediately These actions will reduce inequities and strengthen the collective recovery. The time for global leaders to act responsibly is long overdue https://t.co/e7uZfLAi0U

[DIF 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @DIF2000_]

@NancyFaeser @Doktor_FreakOut Ich freue mich, dass sie #horstseehofer ablösen. Ich platziere es antizipativ schon mal hier&heute bevor Sie ab morgen kaum mehr Zeit haben, das zu lesen: sorgen Sie für Ausnahmeregelungen für binationale Paare, damit sie sich auf trotz Corona sehen können. #loveisnottourism 🙏

[SchengenVisaInfo @schengen_info]

African Airlines Association: EU's Travel Ban on African Countries Is Discriminatory

#COVID19 #Omicron #travel #EU #Africa #travelban #SouthernAfrica https://t.co/5IimAkDq02

[SA Breaking News @SABreakingNews]

https://t.co/9pa0sT9eGz | EU to consider easing Omicron travel curbs on southern Africa: European Union health ministers will discuss on Tuesday whether to adjust the travel curbs the bloc’s nations have imposed on southern Africa in response to the… https://t.co/28s52ZTzsV

[Giulietta Talevi @GTalevi]

Hi there, @GermanEmbassySA, now that we are seeing more evidence that Omicron is a. global and b. not especially severe, are you considering taking us off the red list anytime soon? Thanks.

[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

Dear Excellencies @EmbEspPretoria, This cartoon by the Spanish newspaper La Tribuna is racist & very offensive. #Omicron is NOT a South African variant & there isn't a single case of South Africans trying to cross into Europe on boats. I'll be writing to them. Disgusting!

[Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, CON, CGH @akin_adesina]

Now that omicron has been found in many non-African and developed countries, why are travels from those countries not banned? Why single out African countries? Singling out African countries is very unfair, non-scientific and discriminatory. Lift bans on African countries! @WHO

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

On the left is Germany newspaper @rheinpfalz with a headline “The Virus from Africa is with us.”

On the right is a Spanish newspaper @TribunaAlbacete with a cartoon saying black South Africans are coming to Europe on a boat with Omicron Covid-19 variant.

This is racism in 2021!

[Mmusi Maimane MP @MmusiMaimane]

This is nonsense.

A virus that most likely came to Africa from Europe is being depicted as black and South African.

The omicron response from the international community has exposed deep seated anti Africa sentiment that must be addressed.

[Dr. Ayoade Alakija @yodifiji.bsky.social @yodifiji]

Spanish News version of racism and xenophobia #OmicronVariant - we can’t be silent. Inequity and injustice brought us the new variants. Africa cannot be labelled continent of covid. Leaders SPEAK UP! Summon their ambassadors & send a strong message that these images are wrong!

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

It's now clear Omicron was already circulating in the US weeks ago, before it was identified in South Africa and travel bans were instituted.

What's less clear is why the punitive and purposeless travel bans are still in place. Rescind them. And thank the South Africa scientists

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

With a virus that is truly borderless, travel restrictions that isolate any one country or region are unfair, punitive and ineffective.

I appeal to all governments to consider instead repeated testing for travelers, together with other appropriate & truly effective measures.

[Dr. Ayoade Alakija @yodifiji.bsky.social @yodifiji]

In Germany @rheinpfalz tells their readers that the virus from Africa has arrived. What does this even mean?! We must push back against this racist, discriminatory and xenophobic narrative. #OmicronVariant has its roots in inequity & injustice - let’s not add insult to injury!