Personal trainer Simon Heaton, 45, and wife Kerry, 45, from Chiselhurst, Kent, said their eight-day holiday to Cape Town has become a nightmare. He said: ”We arrived last Friday at 8am on the BA43 and only found out when we touched down at Cape Town and turned our phones on that South Africa had been red-listed. Unemployed teacher Lauren Slack, 41, from Manchester, had taken an extended break to stay on holiday with friends in South Africa when suddenly she got an offer of a job. The desperate boost to the economy was devastated by the near worldwide ban of flights from South Africa as the alarm was raised about a so-called “worst ever” strain. He said it was wrong to “punish not reward” South Africa for discovering and reporting Omicron and said cutting off the country was a non-scientific based “knee jerk reaction”.

Source: Daily Mirror December 02, 2021 12:48 UTC