15 buyers skip tourism expo over Ebola scare

AT least 15 buyers from Botswana have withdrawn from next month’s tourism expo while the African Marketing Summit scheduled for Victoria Falls has been postponed as the country pays the price of “reckless statements” on the Ebola disease.

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Last month, government said it had no capacity to conduct tests to detect the deadly Ebola disease with officials in the Health and Child Care ministry saying specimens from suspected cases would be referred to South African laboratories for verification.

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