{"id":48292,"date":"2020-05-21T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/coronavirus-botswana-dr-kwape-tours-points-of-entry\/"},"modified":"2020-05-21T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:00:09","slug":"coronavirus-botswana-dr-kwape-tours-points-of-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/coronavirus-botswana-dr-kwape-tours-points-of-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Botswana: Dr Kwape Tours Points Of Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrap\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Lemogang Kwape today toured points of entry-Pioneer Border Gate and Ramatlabama Border Gate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the visit was to;<br \/>\n\u2022 Appreciate the services rendered at the points of entry<br \/>\n\u2022 Recognize challenges faced by staff<br \/>\n\u2022 Motivate frontline staff at points of entry<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The following observations were made at both points of entry;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pioneer Boader Gate<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022The boarder situation is calm and less activity recorded as the South African border is temporarily closed due to a fumigation exercise-taking place.<br \/>\n\u2022Incoming trucks to Botswana have been redirected to other points of entry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ramatlabama Boarder Gate<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022The boarder situation is calm and services are being rendered with all the necessary precautionary measures being followed.<br \/>\n\u2022A resting place for trucks<br \/>\n\u2022Incoming trucks to Botswana go through all the necessary checks, clustered and then escorted to their final destinations by Botswana Police Services.<\/p>\n<p>Honourable Kwape encouraged staff to continue adhering to the COVID-19 precautions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health and Wellness, Republic of Botswana.<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-botswana-dr-kwape-tours-points-of-entry?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Lemogang Kwape today toured points of entry-Pioneer Border Gate and Ramatlabama Border Gate. The purpose of the visit was to; \u2022 Appreciate the services rendered at the points of entry \u2022 Recognize challenges faced by staff \u2022 Motivate frontline staff at points of entry The following observations were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,32489,6425,33616,257,7508,254,10938],"class_list":["post-48292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-entry","tag-kwape","tag-news","tag-points","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}