Wannan labarin ya tattara tasirin cutar ta COVID-19 da ke gudana a Botswana. A ranar 12 ga Janairu, 2020, Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya (WHO) ta tabbatar da cewa wani sabon labari na coronavirus ne ya haifar da cutar numfashi a cikin gungu na mutane a birnin Wuhan na lardin Hubei na kasar Sin, wanda aka ba da rahoto ga WHO a ranar 31 ga Disamba 2019. The hali fatality rabo ga COVID-19 ya kasance yawa ƙananan fiye da SARS na 2003, amma baza ta kasance da muhimmanci mafi girma, tare da wani gagarumin total wadanda suka mutu. Simulators na tushen samfur don Botswana suna nuna cewa tazarar amincewar kashi 95% na lambar haifuwa mai bambance-bambancen lokaci R t ya tsaya tsayin daka a kusa da 1.0 a cikin Satumba, Oktoba da Nuwamba 2020. A ranar 30 ga Maris, an tabbatar da kararraki uku na farko a kasar. A ranar 25 ga Maris wata mace mai shekaru 78 da ake zargin tana da COVID-19 ta mutu a Ramotswa. Bayan 'yan kwanaki bayan mutuwarta, sakamakon ya dawo mai kyau wanda ya zama shari'a ta hudu na COVID-19 a Botswana .