President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has said that African countries should not be penalized for the Omicron COVID-19 variants and other mutations across the world.
This he disclosed on Sunday, following the travel ban imposed on Southern African countries as part of an emergency response to the recently discovered COVID-19 variant, first detected in South Africa.
According to him, Africa is not the source of COVID-19 which was first discovered in Wuhan, China, two years ago.
Adesina also campaigned for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa and other parts of the world even as he encouraged African nations to start manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines.