In a letter to the Botswana government, the citizens said that “the actions and inactions (monitoring of the situation) by our government, coupled with the worsening conditions here, have left us stranded and thus we feel abandoned.”
“The urgency of this request is summarised by the goodwill gestures of the Government of Algeria who evacuated its citizens and those of Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania as a friendly act as well as New Zealand which airlifted citizens from Papua New Guinea on humanitarian grounds,” the letter said.
More than seventy-three thousand people had been confirmed with COVID-19 infection as of 18 February 2020, with nearly two-thousand deaths in China and around the world.
– APA
