Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has been quarantined, along with his whole cabinet and the entire parliament, after a nurse who was testing legislators for coronavirus was later confirmed positive.
Botswana’s House of Assembly was sent into panic on Thursday after revelations about the healthcare worker.
A Batswana legislator confirmed to this writer that all MPs will undergo 14 days of quarantine after they came into contact with the nurse on Wednesday.
Botswana Congress Party (BCP) leader Dumelang Saleshando on Thursday confirmed the development.
The country has 13 confirmed cases and one death so far.
Minister for Health Dr Lemogang Kwape in an update on COVID-19 confirmed that one of the seven new cases was “a health worker who was based at Block 8 clinic and yesterday was on duty at Parliament.”
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