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Ottawa’s travel ban against African countries made clear its underlying policy: What matters is not your test result, but where you’ve been. It’s yet another example of anti-Africa discrimation.
From tennis players to government officials, double standards in law have big-picture consequences.
It was the biases of its ‘first world’ which prevented South Africa from mobilising the energies and talents of most of its people against COVID-19.
The current spate of travel bans is rather hasty and irrational given that we know that the variant is in several countries already.
Last year, 189 countries – home to roughly 65% of the global population – cut themselves off from the world at some point. Borders are now reopening and travel resuming, but normal is a ways off.
The response of individual nations to coronavirus has largely been ad hoc, piecemeal and in many cases, lethally ineffective – just like climate action.
Canada’s ban on foreign travellers is not consistent with the science of the pandemic or Canada’s own values of inclusion and openness to outsiders.
The economic impacts of the new coronavirus on the travel and tourism industry will be felt in every corner of the world and almost every sector of the economy.
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Associate Professor of International Business, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Executive Secretary, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University
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PhD Student Sociology and Social Justice, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Windsor
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Professor, Law and Economics of Tourism, University of Guelph
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Faculty Lecturer and Academic Program Co-ordinator, Supply Network and Aviation Management, McGill University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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Principal Medical Scientist at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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COFUND/Marie Curie Junior Research Fellow, Durham University
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