It’s time to stop using the term ‘South Africa variant’

Nearly a year ago when the COVID-19 crisis was taking hold, people across the world expressed outrage at the term “China virus”.

It was important to condemn such divisive and, some said, racist language.

But a year later, after more than 2,3 million people across the world have died from the virus, the global economy has nosedived and education for an entire generation of children has been disrupted, I wonder if we have really learned our lesson.

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