 The president of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adishino, is pushing back against the travel bans being announced against African countries following the discovery of the Omicron COVID variant. Dr. Adishino says the continent shouldn't be punished because mutations could occur randomly anywhere in the world. He cited this in a three-part tweet following the travel ban imposed on southern African countries by the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union and some Asian countries. The Omicron variant was first discovered by scientists in South Africa.