Chinese ambassador reassures on Coronavirus

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Nearly 160 Chinese nationals who recently returned from their homeland to Botswana are in voluntary self-quarantine, while another 139 successfully completed the same process and were declared free of the dreaded Coronavirus.

Chinese Ambassador to Botswana, Zhao Yanbo said the self-quarantine was part of protocols adopted by local authorities and the Chinese Embassy to prevent the spread of the illness by returning travellers.

He was responding this morning to Mmegi enquiries at a briefing on the disease, which has thus far killed more than 1,800 people mostly in China.

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Chinese ambassador reassures on Coronavirus

Nearly 160 Chinese nationals who recently returned from their homeland to Botswana are in voluntary self-quarantine, while another 139 successfully completed the same process and were declared free of the dreaded Coronavirus.

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