BOPEU calls for more vaccine supplies and coherent rollout plan

COVID-19 Vaccine
COVID-19 Vaccine

As covid19 death toll climbed over 2000, the Botswana Public Employee Union(BOPEU) has urged Government to concentrate efforts in saving lives by way of procuring enough vaccines and further implement a realistic vaccination roll out plan in a bid to decongest the vaccination sites.

Botswana has experienced both slow arrivals of vaccines and incoherent rollout plan amidst alarming covid19 death toll, one of the worst in the world, in relation to the country’s small population.

Intervention by teachers Unions forced Government into the plan to vaccinate teachers after their trade unions made it clear no teacher would return to the classroom unless they had been vaccinated.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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