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No independence exeat for boarders
As part of efforts to contain Covid-19 infections, boarders have to remain at school over the Independence weekend and gatherings for the 41st anniversary remain limited to 50, but the vaccination pro...Published: 14 hrs ago | 338 | by Staff reporter
South Africa suspends rollout of J&J vaccine
South Africa's Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced a temporary pause of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccine rollout.It follows a decision by the US Food and Drug Agency...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1374 | by Staff reporter
Chinese jabs under probe, says WHO
THE success of Zimbabwe's mass vaccination programme is under scrutiny after a senior Chinese official made a rare admission that its COVID-19 vaccines being administered in the country have a lower e...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1665 | by Staff reporter
Botswana probes two AstraZeneca deaths
Botswana is investigating the deaths of two among thousands of people who had been given doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine to see if there is any link, the health ministry said. The sout...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails vaccination programme
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has hailed Zimbabwe's ongoing Covid-19 vaccination programme, which is progressing well with the country having the eighth highest vaccination rate in Africa and third in the South...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:33hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
'No free jab for foreigners in Zimbabwe'
FOREIGNERS who are not permanently staying in Zimbabwe will pay for COVID-19 vaccination, which is currently being administered for free to locals. This was said by President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo requests for more Covid-19 vaccines
BULAWAYO City Council's (BCC) Covid-19 vaccination drive is beset by inadequate distribution of doses, forcing the local authority to adopt a deliberate strategy not to actively promote the inoculatio...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:34hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 undercuts health gains
HEALTH stakeholders have raised concern that the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed several milestones covered in addressing challenges in the health sector.This came out during commemorations of ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:54hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Human rights doctors express concern over low COVID-19 vaccine uptake
HUMAN rights doctors have expressed concern over the low uptake of COVID-19 vaccines as the country battles to control the spread of the respiratory virus.In a statement to mark World Health D...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:50hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, South Africa rush to contain potential Covid-19 surge
As summer winds down in Cape Town, South Africans take advantage of the empty beaches on the white sands at Camps Bay. "I'm glad to be free again, to visit the beach and have fun," says one lady....Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 19:01hrs | 1805 | by Deutsche Welle
Zimbabwe govt increases Covid-19 vaccination sites
THE Government has introduced more Covid-19 vaccination sites across the country as part of efforts to decentralise the process and decongest existing service points. Wilkins Hospital, which h...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:49hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 vaccines face political haggling in Zimbabwe
A staunch supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance in Zimbabwe, 29-year-old Mateline Chiwandamira, is waiting for a signal from the party president, Nelson Chamisa, whether ...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:32hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants pay rise this month
CIVIL servants will get a salary increment this month, with the Government offering what is available in its coffers, while negotiations for a better package continue under the National Joint Negotiat...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 08:11hrs | 1740 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 vaccinations exceed 100,000
Zimbabwe has seen an increase in the uptake of Covid-19 vaccines over the past few weeks with the number of vaccinations now exceeding 100,000.That may sound minute for a country chasing a 10 ...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:53hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
Police on high alert
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned that it will descend heavily on traffic offenders and violators of Covid-19 regulations during the Easter Holiday.This comes after President Emmer...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:49hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Fake vaccination certificates scam: 457 cards missing from clinic
Checks at Chitungwiza's Seke South Clinic have found 457 Covid-19 vaccination cards are missing as police investigations intensify into a ring that was selling cards, completed with details of vaccine...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:09hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get one million vaccines per month
Zimbabwe will receive about one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines per month from additional purchases so as to reach the 10 million herd immunity target, Finance and Economic Development Minister Pro...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 18:52hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Experts warn of third Covid-19 wave after Easter
HEALTH experts have warned of the possibility of an explosion in Covid-19 cases immediately after the Easter holidays if the public fail to comply with lockdown regulations. Easter holidays ar...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa speaks on his role in getting Africa's 400 million vaccine doses
African Union Special Envoy for COVID-19 and Pan-African businessman Strive Masiyiwa has spoken on the role he played in helping put together an agreement signed early this week for Johnson & John...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 07:50hrs | 2910 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabwe warms up to US vaccine
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would multi-source COVID-19 vaccines and was ready to receive and approve the United States-manufactured Johnson and Johnson vaccine to fight the COVID-19 pandemic....Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2582 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets 1 million more COVID-19 doses from China
With the vaccine supply chain now assured with the arrival yesterday of more than a million doses of Sinovac vaccine, the bulk of Zimbabwe's first commercial order, the Ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
'No to command vaccination'
The International Coalition against Coronavirus-African Development (ICAC-AD) has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration against commandeering citizens to take up COVID-19 vaccines, sayi...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Indian vaccines arrive
As Zimbabwe scales up its national vaccination programme against Covid-19, the arrival of the first consignment of the Covaxin vaccine from India will complement efforts to promote sustainable access ...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Govt frets over Easter holidays
AUTHORITIES and medical experts are worried about gatherings during the upcoming Easter holidays, amid fears that these could trigger a local third wave of the lethal coronavirus.The concerns ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:10hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
More vaccines arrive today
The first consignment of Indian Covaxin Covid-19 vaccines is expected in Harare today, with President Mnangagwa scheduled to receive 35 000 doses out of the 75 000 donated by the government of India. ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to issue Covid-19 'passport'
ZIMBABWE will be among the first countries in the world to issue out Covid-19 certificates that will be linked to the person's passport and National Identify Document.The certificate will also...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
Tight security over Easter
Security will be boosted during the forthcoming Easter holidays to ensure adherence to Covid-19 containment regulations, amid expectations of an increase in human traffic countrywide, Information, Pub...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 08:37hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Government tightens security over Easter
SECURITY will be boosted during the forthcoming Easter holidays to ensure adherence to Covid-19 containment regulations, amid expectations of an increase in human traffic countrywide, Information, Pub...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:44hrs | 1272 | by Staff reporter
Don't put Zanu-PF into your pocket, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored the Zanu-PF leadership to lead from the front in mobilising the people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 under Phase Two and Three of the inoculation exercise which i...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:37hrs | 1108 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rallies Zimbabweans against COVID-19 conspiracies
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa, who received his first Covid-19 jab at a momentous occasion attended by different religious and political leaders yesterday, has called on the nation to shun conspiracy theories a...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:28hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo frontliners to get second vaccination
FRONTLINE workers in Bulawayo who last month received their first dose of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine will this week get their second doses with continued calls for more health care workers to get ...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Medical experts in dilemma over COVID-19 variants
HEALTH experts yesterday warned that the current COVID-19 vaccination programme might not effectively deal with the new mutants of the coronavirus.They said most of the vaccines currently in u...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe borders to open soon, says Mthuli Ncube
ZIMBABWE will next week receive another consignment of Covid-19 vaccine procured by Government from China to bolster the country's inoculation efforts to achieve the herd immunity, Minister of Finance...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:28hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
Mass vaccination starts in Vic Falls
ZIMBABWE yesterday marked a year after it reported its first Covid-19 positive case in Victoria Falls, triggering unprecedented events that have seen the country recording 36 652 cases, 34 249 recover...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:44hrs | 468 | by Staff Reporter
Soldiers take over vaccination programme
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga has said government will soon rope in soldiers to speed up the second phase of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme. G...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1282 | by Stephen Mpofu
'2nd jab might trigger side effects'
HEALTH experts have warned that people receiving the second dose of the Chinese-manufactured COVID-19 Sinopharm vaccine might experience severe side effects, but said this should not be cause for alar...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 2056 | by Staff reporter
Teachers start receiving Covid-19 vaccine jabs
The second stage of the national vaccination programme against Covid-19 opened in Harare yesterday with teachers, the elderly and people with underlying conditions now getting their jabs with the roll...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 05:58hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
CSOs demand transparency in vaccine rollout
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday raised concern over lack of transparency in the disbursement of COVID-19 vaccine and called for the setting up of a monitoring and evaluation framework to ...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:50hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe's proud moment in Namibia
ZIMBABWE on Tuesday delivered for free a consignment of 100 000 Covid-19 Sinopharm vaccine donated by the Chinese Government to Namibia aboard an Air Zimbabwe flight as the country scales up its globa...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:42hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Chinese vaccine safe, envoy insists
CHINESE Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Gu Shaochun, has defended the Sinopharm vaccine produced by the Asian giant, saying that it is safe amid indications that the rollout is floundering due to public scept...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to get vaccinated immediately
TEACHERS, hospitality industry workers, tobacco merchants and their workers should get vaccinated with immediate effect, while restaurants are now allowed to have sit-in clients at 50 percent capacity...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
Amnesty to decongest prisons
Cabinet received an update on the Covid-19 Outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs as chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on the Covid-19 Outbreak. ...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Zantac: How one common medication caused the public outcry
The phrase health is wealth will never be any truer. This is why we seek medical attention whenever we fall sick or feel ill. Sometimes a trip to the pharmacy across the street will do the trick, wher...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 20:33hrs | 1152 | by Staff writer
Is there anything for Zimbabwe's presidium to be proud of, after turning country into a shameless charity case?
I honestly had all the intentions of attentively watching and following the live broadcast of the delivery, that arrived today at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare, of an addit...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 17:17hrs | 758 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa receives second batch of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine
ZIMBABWE has received its second batch of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines and the consignment from China has 344 000 doses.As at March 15 2021, Zimbabwe had 36 504 confirmed cases of Covid-19 infe...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 15:40hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe determined to emerge with greater capabilities after the pandemic - Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is determined to emerge out of the Covid-19 pandemic with greater capability to play a more effective role towards peace, Harmony and prosperity within the comity of nations, President Mnanga...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 14:38hrs | 277 | by Kudzai Furusa
More vaccines expected today from China
A second plane carrying Sinopharm vaccines, this time 344 000 doses, is expected in Harare at around 8am this morning with health authorities working out how to accelerate the national vaccination pro...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive more Sinopharm jabs this week amid lingering hesitancy
Zimbabwe will this week take delivery of the second batch of 200,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by China, and a substantial amount from its first purchase of the Sinopharm jabs.The c...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 17:53hrs | 519 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Where is Dr. Masimba Mavaza? A story worthy-Amai Merry Chiwenga is left in the mud and mire
This is exactly what we mean when we say tribalism is giving a bad smell at every corner of Zimbabwe. Tribalism is raw and present, not even possible to conceal it because it appears to be the lifelin...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 07:31hrs | 2923 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa quakes over looming COVID-19 3rd wave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has put its health and security agencies on high alert over a looming and potentially more fatal third wave of COVID-19, with the Zanu PF leader yesterday...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:15hrs | 4091 | by Staff reporter
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