Africa largely behind, Dikoloti tells WHO

Speaking at a WHO regional committee gathering in Lome, Togo last week Friday, the minister said this impedes the ability to end the pandemic and achieve the common objective of global health. “Botswana has made significant progress in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine coverage and currently we have reached 70% COVID-19 vaccinations.

We appreciate WHO and Africa CDC's collaboration to launch the COVID-19 network of genome sequencing laboratories and to rapidly expand genetic surveillance capacities across the continent. This is key to ensure that we are able to monitor variants of concern and manage outbreaks rapidly,” Dikoloti said.