Cautious hopes as Covid cases drop

On Monday, the Presidential COVID-19 Task Force announced that the entire country had ‘gone green’, representing the first time this year that COVID-19 cases have fallen below 10 per 100,000 this year.

For Batswana who endured the harshest winter in memory, with cases in June and July peaking at a collective 69,711, the latest downtrend is a Godsend. July was the worst month in terms of COVID-19 mortalities, with deaths rising to 573, from 219 in June and from an average of 184 in the five months before that.