Zimbabwe and South Africa have been removed from the UK government’s red list – along with 8 other countries.

 

Travel bans were imposed by the government of United Kingdom  after South Africa recorded its first Omicron case.

The move by the UK to place African countries on it’s Red list was heavily criticised as premature and unfair as the Omicron variant is prevalent in many countries.

 

UK health secretary Sajid Javid told the House of Commons on Tuesday that all 11 countries on the travel red list would be removed, saying the system was shown to be ineffective in slowing the variant.