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On 27 July, the second Botswana death via COVID-19 was reported. [23] On 31 July, the Greater Gaborone zone had come under lock down for the third time after a steep uptick of COVID-19 locally transmitted cases. The lockdown was expected to take a period of two weeks. [24] By the end of the month, the total number of confirmed cases was 894.
Botswana continued to address the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022, including the discovery of the COVID-19 variant Omicron BA.4 and BA.5, with COVID-19 restrictions being relaxed in October. Continued disputes took place regarding the Botswana–Namibia border , though an open border was established in September.
The US delivers Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to Botswana as part of the COVAX program in 2021 In August, the chief executive officer of former president Ian Khama 's SKI Khama Foundation issued a statement to the effect that the foundation had secured two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and two million doses of the Pfizer ...
World maps showing total confirmed cases, and total confirmed cases per million, by country. Data is from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. [note 2]
Botswana's health minister said on Friday that the government was paying the equivalent of $15 a dose for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech and almost $29 a dose for U.S ...
Botswana continued to address the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, beginning its vaccination process through the importation of vaccines. On November 11, Botswana was the location of the first documented case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. 2021 also saw the discovery of two diamonds in Botswana that exceeded 1000 carats, becoming the third and fourth largest diamonds ever discovered.
Botswana is located in the center of Southern Africa, between Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe.The Kalahari desert covers approximately 70% of the country. [1]Botswana was a part of the British empire, and was known as the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland before it gained independence within the Commonwealth in 1966. [2]
The Omicron variant features as such for the first time in the overview of WHO's weekly operational update, namely "Supporting Omicron variant detection and COVID-19 response in southern Africa." As of 2 December, Botswana and South Africa have reported 19 and 172 Omicron variant cases, respectively, accounting for 62% of global cases.