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Mthuli Ncube grilled over vaccines
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured) was yesterday grilled by Parliament over the country's preference of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines over a wide variety of approved jabs wh...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in race against time to exhaust stockpiles of Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe is battling against time to administer over 14 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that are already in its stocks amid concerns of public complacency and hesitancy, it has been established....Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's choice of vaccines under scrutiny
ZIMBABWE'S vaccination programme has come under scrutiny amid questions as to why Treasury purchased expensive vaccines whilst cheaper ones with better efficacy were on the market.The NewsHawk...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe misses Covid herd immunity target
ZIMBABWE has missed the December target to vaccinate about 60% of the population to meet herd immunity, with only less than 25% having been jabbed so far, amid fears of a fourth wave.Health ex...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:19hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
African Leaders Must Urge G20 to Stop Covid-19 Vaccines Apartheid to Save Our World
The novel coronavirus has shown glaring flaws in the world's collective ability to respond to infectious disease outbreaks, with none more evident than wealthy countries' self-destructive unwillingnes...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 22:05hrs | 4 | by Penny Lutung Amor
Govt exposed over COVID-19 vaccines
MEMBERS of the public who were vaccinated with the first jab of the Indian Covaxin COVID-19 jab and failed to get the second dose might be forced to restart the vaccination exercise using Chinese Sino...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends lockdown
Zimbabwe on Tuesday extended its Covid-19 lockdown by a further two weeks, but licenced bars will be allowed to re-open to fully vaccinated patrons.Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 20:42hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe probes 4 deaths linked to Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe investigated four deaths over possible links to Covid-19 vaccines, officials said on Sunday.The four cases were among 96 reported post-vaccination adverse reactions, but none of them ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives 1 million vaccines from WHO's COVAX
ZIMBABWE Friday took delivery of 943 200 Covid-19 vaccine doses from the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility to complement the ongoing national vaccine programme.COVAX, is a world...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt snubs cheaper donor-funded jabs
IN an eyebrow-raising development, the Zimbabwean government, battling the Covid-19 pandemic, has been purchasing expensive Chinese vaccines while overlooking doses supplied at cheaper prices under th...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Africa to receive 10m additional COVID-19 doses
African Union member States are set to receive additional 10 million doses of Astra-Zeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines over the next three months through a new partnership between the French governme...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa misfires on Covid jabs?
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's propensity to mislead his audience has come to the fore again after he lied during an interview with a Zambian Television station that all the Covid 19 vaccines...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles with surge in Covid-19 burials?
A group of women sing hymns at the cemetery in Harare as undertakers, dressed in Covid-19 protective gear, gently lower a white casket into the grave."This world is not our home," they sing, a...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Employees may be compelled to take Covid-19 vaccine
The strides made by the government to scale up the voluntary vaccination process in Zimbabwe are welcome as a move to contain the surging virus.however, some employers are now compelling their...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | | by Cephas Mavhondo
Govt in chaotic COVID-19 vaccine supply
MEMBERS of Parliament have slammed the government for its unsystematic and haphazard purchase and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines after reports that many people are struggling to get second doses....Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get 5m doses from AU facility
Zimbabwe should soon start receiving initial shipments of its 5 million share of the 400 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine secured for Africa by the African Union (AU), the African Vacc...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets herd immunity by year-end
The government has further intensified the vaccination of citizens against the Covid-19 pandemic targeting to reach the 60 percent herd immunity at a time when cumulative infections stand at over 100 ...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
WHO ranks Zimbabwe high in vaccine procurement
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have rated Zimbabwe among the best countries in the world when it comes to buying and acquiring supplies of Covid-19 ...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Delta variant accounts for 79% of Zimbabwe Covid-19 infections
ZIMBABWEANS should ensure they always follow laid down Covid-19 prevention measures to avoid the introduction of deadlier strains of the disease in the country as the virulent Indian Delta variant now...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More vaccines coming
THE Government will take delivery of at least 6 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses this month and next month as it moves to minimise the impact of the pandemic as the more infectious Delta variant ha...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF refused 1 million J&J vaccine doses, 6 months after FDA approval and now J&J is gold dust
A few weeks ago, Zimbabwe was refused one million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine offered through the Africa covac initiative under the pretext the country did not have the extra cold facilit...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:51hrs | 8 | by Wilbert Mukori
Single dose Covid-19 vaccine for Zimbabwe on the cards
ZIMBABWE may soon start administering the single dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine following approval by the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe.The authority approved the use of Johnson an...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
China rescues Zimbabwe on Covid-19 as world faces vaccine apartheid
AS the world faces a Covid-19 vaccine apartheid amid privatisation and monopolisation of its science and technology as well as the doses, and hoarding by rich countries, China has rescued Zimbabwe by ...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 budget dries up
ZIMBABWE'S COVID-19 fight might soon go off the rails if government does not urgently mobilise additional funding after exhausting US$93,2 million of the US$100 million budgeted for vaccine imports, w...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mobile Covid-19 vaccination programme for rural areas
COMMUNITIES in the rural areas have pleaded with authorities to ensure that vaccines are made available at most vaccination centres for easy access.This comes at a time when the ongoing nation...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Vaccines administered in Zimbabwe effective against Delta variant'
ALL the Covid-19 vaccines being administered in Zimbabwe under the mass inoculation programme are effective against the highly virulent Delta variant, experts have concluded.In Zimbabwe, the D...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 cases decline, but Harare remains hotspot
NEW COVID-19 infections have declined in the past week across all provinces, except for Harare Metropolitan which still has a high number of cases, a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert has said....Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls, Kazungula border posts reopen for vaccinated tourists
Victoria Falls and Kazungula border posts have opened for fully vaccinated tourists in a move aimed at reviving the tourism sector, which has been hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic since last year....Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to take delivery of 6,5 million more vaccines
Government has already paid for 6,5 million more Covid-19 vaccines, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube revealed yesterday while receiving one million others purchased fro...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe takes delivery of 1 million more jabs
Zimbabwe yesterday took delivery of one million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines purchased from China, taking the total number of vaccines brought into the country so far to over five million. With a target ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Canada vs Zimbabwe: Two divergent paths of Covid-19 vaccination
When mother-of-three Amanda Wood heard that hundreds of coronavirus shots were available for teens, only one thing prevented her from racing to the vaccination site at a Toronto high school - her 13-y...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 18:20hrs | | by AP
United States imported COVID-19 vaccines into Zimbabwe to 'checkmate Zanu-PF?
Zimbabwe, facing a wave of new Covid-19 infections and a slow vaccination campaign, will only accept Chinese, Indian and Russian vaccines under the global vaccine distribution scheme COVAX, a spokesma...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
As COVID-19 spreads, Zimbabweans rush to get a jab
Simanga Musarurwa, a 57-year old mother of six, was reluctant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine. But then, tragedy struck nearby."My neighbour and some people I know from my neighbourhood got i...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance Covid-19 vaccines: US hits back
THE United States yesterday hit back at claims by the Zimbabwean government that it had provided over half a million vaccines to the opposition MDC Alliance.In a terse statement following alle...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'we're in a crisis', 'MDC stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says information on the ground, particularly in rural areas, was pointing to a dire situation in the country, hence the need for government to stop politi...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines from US embassy
Deputy chief secretary George Charamba, Presidential spokesperson has claimed that the opposition MDC Alliance received half a million COVID-19 vaccines f...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:39hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
Chamisa's MDC stuck with over half a million 'unregistered COVID19 vaccines'?
GOVERNMENT yesterday sensationally claimed that the opposition MDC Alliance was stuck with over half a million "unregistered COVID19 vaccines" which it allegedly received from the United States embass...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt pins hopes on vaccination as cases continue to soar
GOVERNMENT says it will intensify the vaccination programme to effectively fight the pandemic, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa setting a target of one million shots in two weeks to achieve 60% herd ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
African countries to benefit from Unicef, Covax vaccine project
COUNTRIES that are participating in the Covax facility, Zimbabwe included, will benefit from a 120 million dose project by United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and Sinovac in a bid to scale up the ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targets to vaccinate one million in 2 weeks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa extended Zimbabwe's Covid-19 lockdown by another 14 days, further delaying the re-opening of schools which were due to re-open for the second term on June 28.In a ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 21:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
No jab, no COVID-19 allowance, govt tells frontline workers
GOVERNMENT has threatened to withhold CoVID-19 insurance payouts to its frontline workers who are not vaccinated before July 14.Last year, government said it would take care of civil servants ...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Travel agent shunts foreigners to Zimbabwe for COVID-19 jabs
A SOUTH AFRICAN travel agent is reportedly making a killing by bringing South Africans to Zimbabwe for COVID-19 vaccination in a scheme that involves some government officials and a local private hosp...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$70 million war chest for Covid-19 vaccines
Government is set to utilise the US$70 million left in its coffers from the US$100 million set aside by Treasury for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines as the fight against the pandemic intensifies in ...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Masiyiwa raps 'rich' nations for hoarding COVID-19 vaccines
PHILANTHROPIST and telecommunications giant Strive Masiyiwa has criticised the world's richest nations for deliberately causing a shortage of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa.A livid Masiyiwa, who ...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives equipment to detect COVID-19 variants
ZIMBABWE is now able to detect COVID-19 variants after it received a donation of 57 PCR testing machines from a Chinese firm.Satewave Technologies donated the machines, along with 1 000 boxes ...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe expects 2.5 million Chinese Covid-19 vaccines by month end
Zimbabwe expects to receive 2.5 million Covid-19 vaccines from China by the end of this month as it seeks to boost its vaccination drive after several centres ran out of doses, which caused panic, the...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 12:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
World Bank, African Union's COVID vaccine task force, all set to deploy vaccines to 400 million Africans
World Bank President David Malpass, and his senior management team, comprised of Dr Axel van Trotsenburg and Dr Makhtar Diop, have met with the African Union's COVID-19 Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 16:05hrs | 12 | by Agencies
Malema praises Zimbabwe's efficient vaccination programme
SOUTH AFRICA'S opposition EFF leader Julius Malema has praised Zimbabwe's Covid-19 vaccination programme noting that fellow South Africans were crossing the border to get some doses in the country....Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
3rd wave could overwhelm Africa, claims WHO
THE third wave of COVID-19 infections could potentially be devastating for Africa at a time when the continent is experiencing a severe shortage of vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has wa...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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