Zimbabwean-born scientist Dr Sikhulile Moyo, now based in Botswana, is credited with detecting the new Covid-19 variant that has caused anxiety across the globe. Ironically, this has caused a negative reaction by way of banning travel among Botswana, Zimbabwe and other nations. 
A native of Zimbabwe, Moyo moved to Botswana after completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare in 1996.
He started working at the Botswana Harvard Partnership as a Lab Assistant in 2003 and was promoted to Laboratory Coordinator, then Deputy Lab Manager, then to his current position as Lab Manager.
He then did a Master’s degree in Applied Microbiology and Public Health. In a few months after that, he would then complete his PhD in Medical Virology from Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
For his thesis, “Evolutionary trends and dynamics of HIV-1C in Botswana,” he used new molecular and serological methods to identify and characteriee early founder viruses. The samples for his research came from the BHP freezers.
This month Moyo and his team at the Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute were the first to sequencethe Covid-19 variant
B.1.1.529 which was then named Omicron.
B.1.1.529 which was then named Omicron.
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