When South African officials held a briefing introducing a new and worrying coronavirus variant late last month, the reaction was swift: countries around the world threw up travel bans, decimating flight schedules and isolating nations across southern Africa.
As African leaders decried the moves and warned of dire economic impacts, the global fallout began.
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