What vaccine news means for the creative industry

President Mokgweetsi Masisi recently announced that government will prioritise the whole Botswana population in rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine once it has been procured.

This will now give hope to the live event industry, which has effectively been shut down since March last year due to the pandemic.

With Masisi’s announcement that vaccines against COVID-19 are impending, large-scale shows could resume before the end of 2021. It is no doubt that the vaccine news, although the medicine has not yet been procured, has injected Botswana’s creative industries with a dose of much-needed buoyancy.

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