Eric Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, the second black person in New York City history to be elected Mayor is said to travel to Ghana to pray despite Omicron fears.
As news of Omicron intensified over last weekend, Adams’s advisers reportedly considered deferring the trip on the logic that the new variant was identified in Africa.
The US banned travel to and from Botswana (where the variant was first spotted), South Africa (whose scientists transparently alerted the world about the variant), and six other Southern African countries that have not reported an omicron case as of today (2 December 2021).
Adams is still going ahead with his already planned visit to Ghana this week.
He will begin his first term as Mayor on 1 January 2022. But before then, he wants to spend a week with his family in the West African country to pray and reflect on history.
He is expected to return to the US on 8 December 2021.
Despite growing worldwide concerns on the recently discovered Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Mayor-elect Eric Adams still plans to visit Ghana, his spokesperson Evan Thies, confirmed.
“I made a promise to myself that I would visit Ghana following the 400th anniversary of slavery in America and the election, to show how far we have come and remember how far we still must go. That anniversary was in 2019 when Ghana’s tourism-boosting ‘Year of Return’ invited people of African descent to visit and live in the country,’’ Adams said in the New York Post.
Winifred Lartey
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