Medic calls for rigorous COViD-19 testing :: Mmegi Online

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Botswana seems to be spreading slowly but while this seems to be good news, managing director and consultant physician at the Riverside Hospital/Tati River Clinic Dr. Kgosidialwa Mompati is worried because in other countries the virus is spreading fast as detected through rigorous testing. In an interview with Mmegi Staffers RYDER GABATHUSE & LEBOGANG MOSIKARE, Dr Mompati emphasised the need for rigorous testing

FRANCISTOWN: Dr. Mompati, a seasoned medical practitioner who has been in practice for four decades now, has witnessed that in the neighbouring South Africa the country started with only seven cases but within no time the virus had rapidly spread across the country.

“When I take the example of Korea, it took a single person and in no time, the virus had spread across the country up to 5,000 infections,” says Mompati appealing for the country to engage in rigorous testing now rather than later to detect real infections.

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