Johannesburg - Botswana is the latest African country to register cases of Covid-19 after three people tested positive for the virus.

The country's Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Lemogang Kwape made the announcement during a live broadcast on Botswana Television around 8 pm on Monday evening.

Kwape said the three, two men and a woman, had travelled to the United Kingdom and Thailand and that they were currently kept in isolation at the Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching Hospital and other secure places.

'We have now moved from prevention to containment. In the past we have preached prevention but now that we have cases, we have moved to prevention and containment at the same time,' he said.

President Mokgweetsi Masisi was expected to address the nation on the matter on Tuesday morning at 9am.