As a leading World Health Organization official pleaded against "knee-jerk" reactions after the discovery in Botswana of the latest Covid-19 strain, South Africa's government on Saturday joined public health advocates in criticizing wealthy nations for imposing travel bans on African countries while failing to address "the vaccine inequity that drives new variants.

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