The new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus was discovered last week by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, the only countries in southern Africa that have the skills and resources to detect a new variant. So what did the rich countries of the world do? Like the drunk looking for his lost car keys under a street-light — “Where did you drop them?” “Over there.” “Then why are you looking for them here?” “The light’s better here” — they banned travel from southern African countries. On Nov 23, scientists in Botswana uploaded 99 Sars-CoV-2 genome sequences to the Wellcome Sanger Institute i…

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