Experts discourage South Africa from banning Indian travel, recommend quarantine measures for travellers
By Karen Singh
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DURBAN - EXPERTS have said that instead of imposing a blanket ban on travellers from Covid-19-ravaged India, the South African government should consider quarantine measures and focus on its genomic surveillance of the coronavirus.
Debate has raged about whether South Africa should impose a travel ban on India as that country battles the spread of Covid-19 – and particularly the spread of the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus.
At the moment, the World Health Organization) has labelled the B.1.617 variant as a category of interest and further investigations have to be made to determine how infectious it is.