BREAKING: Botswana records first death from Coronavirus

Vice-President, Slumber Tsogwane has just announced that a 79-year old woman who had travelled to Motswedi, South Africa on March 14, contracted the Coronavirus and died on March 25.

In a live broadcast on BTV, Tsogwane said tracer teams had picked up 14 other people who had been in contact with the deceased and testing has been conducted on them. Results are pending.

He said the elderly woman returned to Botswana on March 15 and began showing signs on March 21. She was kept in home quarantine and sent to Bamalete Lutheran Hospital for mandatory quarantine.

Editor's Comment
BDF visitation approval a welcome development

BDF camps are military camps, and there is a need for stricter rules and regulations to safeguard their operations as well as ensure the safety of civilians. Of course, military personnel are human, and they have relatives as well as girlfriends and boyfriends, but the fact remains that the BDF is responsible for ensuring national security and stability and, as such, will be one of the first targets in the event of possible attacks. The decision...

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