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Al-Araby
InNovember, whilst doing routine genetic sequencing of Covid-19 samples, South African scientists alerted the world to Omicron, a new, infectious, and rapidly mutating strain of Covid-19 that PCR tests were struggling to detect. Instead of earning global praise for world-class disease surveillance, by December, travellers and aircraft originating from Egypt, and South Africa were immediately banned from setting foot into the European Union, Canada, and other countries. In typical Western colonial overzealous fashion, Canada by de facto banned even Canadian citizens residing in Egypt and South …