Following threats of retaliation by Nigeria, the UK government has removed the country and 10 other African countries it placed on the COVID-19 Red List due to the outbreak of the Omnicron variant of the Coronavirus.

The UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, who made the announcement while addressing Members of Parliament on Tuesday, said the rapid spread of the variant, the Red List is “now less effective in slowing the incursion of Omicron from abroad.”

The 10 countries that were placed on the list included Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

While making his address, Javid said:

“So, I can announce today that whilst we’ll maintain our temporary testing measures for international travel, we will be removing all 11 countries from the travel red list effective from 4:00 am tomorrow,” Javid added.

The UK had reintroduced the Red List in late November as a precautionary measure following the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the COVID-19.

The measure was meant to restrict people from the countries placed on the list from coming into the UK, which drew widespread condemnation around the world.

However, the removal of the countries from the Red List is also coming with a proviso that all UK arrivals from those countries must pay for and self-isolate in a pre-booked, government-approved hotel for 10 days.

seunmsg:
Stupid white racist. The only language they understand is retaliation.

Kdesg:
Na everyday them dey remove una for red list?

See where beggarly mentality has Landed you my country

seunmsg:
Stupid white racist. The only language they understand is retaliation. This is one of the reasons why I will never support the Balkanization of Nigeria to irrelevant smaller units just to satisfy few political gladiators who can’t achieve National relevance in Nigeria.

A United and well governed Nigeria can lead Africa and emancipate the continent from racist western bullies.

joyandfaith:


Oh!,
The the 'white' created Nigeria and you are happy about it. You are real slave. Make I clap for you. Can u tell me why there are more nations per land mass in Europe than Africa?
Why is that most nations in Europe are monolingual or monoethnic.
There wouldn't have been be Nigeria if 1914 did not happen.

Ndimkpurummiri:
Those people from that side will wake up to see this "sad" news

FreeStuffsNG:
First was UAE, now it's UK.We did it again!
All the enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose. God bless Nigeria forever!

olujastro:
Why is Nigerian government not retaliating against Canada despite the travel ban Canada has subjected us to?
We need to respond equally to any country that makes Nigerians suffer unnecessarily.
We also need to ban Turkish airlines for always sending their worst planes to Nigeria and Africa.
Enough is enough!