When Will The Green Lights Come On Again All Over Africa?
Once again, Africa has been singled for punishment by the UK Government. Folks in the tourism industry across the African continent, and here in UK, have no idea why or what they have done to be ignored.
The green lamps came on across most of Europe this summer, but in the 21 African countries Atta covers, there was not one lamp beckoning tourists until Kenya came back from its red list purgatory last Friday. So just one country gets the all-clear, the rest remain firmly closed to British tourists.
Many, like South Africa, appear to meet the UK governments criteria, but remain in the shadows of the red-light district. It is difficult to understand why Kenya got the all-clear, but genomic sequencing is certainly a prime consideration – especially as the Delta variant was predominant in Kenya, the most susceptible to the vaccines.