Dear Editor,ON Wednesday, December 2, 2020, I received an anxious call from one of the Zambian expatriate teachers based in Seychelles.Mr. Gift Jere’s wife, Gift Chirwa had missed a scheduled flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Victoria, Seychelles.She was a transiting traveller and had spent a night in Addis Ababa.The hotel shuttle bus took her late to the airport and she missed the early morning flight to Seychelles.Airline officials told her that the next flight was only due on Friday.Since her Covid-19 test was done in Lusaka, a few days before her travel, it will expire by the time she flies on Friday making her ineligible to fly.She needed to take a fresh Covid-19 test and arrange accommodation for the two nights she would spend in Addis Ababa.On Wednesday evening hotel authorities took her to a Covid-19 test centre and it cost her $138 to do a fresh test. When we picked up the story […]
A NIGHTMARE AVERTED
