Do we need tourists amid Covid?

Africans should first assess the full risk of inviting tourists from overseas to our continent from overseas.

This is especially true of tourists from nations that are currently hard-hit by the second wave of coronavirus deaths and record infections. Media reports indicate that some countries register up to 10,000 new infections daily. 

These countries includes the US, UK, France, Spain, Italy and others. Clearly, there should be some minimum responsibility and concern from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the Covid-19 taskforce of individual African nations on the real possibility of even more coronavirus coming to Africa from its current epicentres in Europe and America.

African governments should be able to monitor the global data and act based on that data as it now shows many people from these countries getting sick, being hospitalised and dying at unprecedented numbers from the disease today more than ever before, and still wanting to travel around the world as if there is no risk of transporting more of the virus to Africans and our pristine tourism destinations.

Hussein Lumumba Amin,
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