COVID- 19 makes bartenders poor
Friday, September 04, 2020
Such devastating development comes when the national unemployment rate that has grown from 20.7% in the last quarter of 2019 to 22.2% according to Statistics Botswana data, showing that youth unemployment has equally shot up from 26.7% to 28.8%.
As complicated as the situation is, since the outbreak of COVID-19 and ban of alcohol sales a lot of people have lost their jobs and others going home with nothing.
The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...