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Hundreds of Lesotho citizens are making dangerous border crossings daily between that country and South Africa to go home.

Views: Visits 25 THREE more Coronavirus (Covid-19) related deaths were recorded yesterday, bringing the total number of deaths so far in the country to 51. The number of infections also rose by 148 cases in just 24 hours to 2725 on Wednesday from 2577 on Tuesday. This according to the latest Covid-19 figures released yesterday by the National Covid-19 Secretariat (NACOSEC). All in all, 31 256 tests have been conducted in a country of 2, 1 million people. It is highly likely that the ne...

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 th...