Botswana Secures Enough Vaccine Doses For Its Adult Population
A health worker prepares a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Francistown, Botswana.
Photographer: Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/Getty Images
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Botswana has secured enough vaccines to inoculate its adult population against the coronavirus, according to Mosepele Mosepele, the deputy coordinator of the presidential Covid-19 task team.
The diamond-rich southern Africa country agreed deals with vaccine manufacturers to cover inoculation of 1.9 million people out of a total population of 2.4 million. Those eligible for vaccination, or are above 18 years, are 1.6 million.