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We must brace for Covid-19 tsunami
ELSEWHERE in this issue we carry a story of how thousands of Basotho without being screened for Covid-19 are trekking back home from South Africa for the Christmas holidays.
Their return home without being subjected to the mandatory Covid-19 protocols could trigger a massive explosion of infections in the new year.
If that happens, we could be staring at a monumental disaster in terms of infections in the next four weeks or so.
That prospect is frightening.
The reasons are clear. In fact, our weak health delivery system could easily be overwhelmed by a pandemic that is wreaking havoc across our borders in South Africa.
MASERU – Minister of Home Affairs
Hon. Motlalentoa Letsosa encouraged Basotho who are in South Africa (SA) to
return home as they will be exempted at the border.
Letsosa said those whose days
lapsed between March and October when the country imposed the lockdown
restrictions owing to the Covid-19 pandemic will be afforded the special
dispensation to cross to their country of origin. This he said during the press
briefing last week at his office.
According to the South Africa’s
immigration laws, the person who has overstayed their stipulated days in their
travelling documents are declared “undesirable” and they are fined penalty or
Covid-19 storm looms
MASERU-LESOTHO could be sleepwalking into a major Covid-19 tsunami as hundreds of Basotho sneak back into the country without screening.
In the past few weeks hordes of Basotho have illegally crossed back home from South Africa.
The Lesotho and South Africa governments seem unable to stop the influx of people through the porous borders. Lesotho’s situation is however more precarious because it is receiving people from a country already in the throes of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Without screening and testing those sneaking in, Lesotho might be sitting on a time bomb that might burst in the next few weeks when infections start surging.
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