Govt okays Alibaba test kits, warns of possible COVID-19 surge

Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation donated to each one of the 54 African nations 20,000 testing kits, 100,000 masks and 1,000 medical use protective suits and face shields last month. There were recent international media reports about the test kits being ‘defective’.

Responding to media enquiries on Friday, Tlale said: “We are using these [Jack Ma] test kits. The test kits being returned by countries are the Rapid test kits, which are not approved by the WHO. In Botswana we use what is called ‘Molecular tests’, which are different from the rapid test kits”.