'All eligible to vaccinate by 2022'

Masisi recieving COVID-19 vaccine PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Masisi recieving COVID-19 vaccine PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

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Committed to roll out a successful and timely vaccination programme against COVID-19, government will eventually cover all the people of Botswana, as set out in the Reset Agenda. As of July 2, 2021, over 165,000 citizens and residents had received at least one dose of the vaccine. Of this number, 108,000 people are fully vaccinated.

The President says Botswana is expecting to receive 50,000 Mordena vaccines and at least 50,000 doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccines by December 2021. 

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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