Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK has described the Britain’s decision to put the West African country on its red list as a “travel apartheid”. Britain added Nigeria to its travel red list and will enforce stricter entry rules starting Monday, over concerns of the spread of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. All travellers from Nigeria to Britain will also have to quarantine on arrival in hotels for 10 days regardless of vaccination status. The Guardian UK reported that quarantine would cost of £2,285The new restrictions were put in place to slow down the spread of Omicron variant of COVID-19, Britain’s health minister Savid Javid said. So the issue is quite different from the Delta variant.”UK minister for policing Kit Malthouse said the wording “travel apartheid” was “very unfortunate language”.

Source: The Guardian December 06, 2021 13:59 UTC