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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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
More Sinopharm jabs for Zimbabwe
THE National Covid-19 Vaccination Programme will receive a major boost this week when the country takes delivery of a new batch of 500 000 vaccine doses procured by the Government from Chinese pharmac...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | | 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 | 5 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
WHO clears controversy surrounding Chinese Covid-19 vaccine
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has cleared the controversy surrounding the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine, Sinopharm, saying countries were free to import the drug and administer it.Sinopharm h...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination roll-out moves gear up
President Mnangagwa is today expected to launch the second stage of the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the scenic city of Victoria Falls. The President is expected to tak...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | 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 | 12 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Subdued Covid-19 vaccine uptake worries Zimbabwe doctors
Zimbabwean doctors have expressed concern over the subdued uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine as frontline workers continue to shun the Chinese Sinopharm jab, the only one currently in use.Many pe...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga has no vaccine side effects
With around 30 000 Zimbabweans now vaccinated against Covid-19, only one person has reported possible side effects, a rash, and Minister of Health and Child Care Vice President Constantino Chiwenga va...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Border officials in huge turnout for Covid-19 vaccination
THERE was a huge turnout of essential service providers at the Beitbridge border post yesterday, mainly those working at the port of entry, to take up the Sinopharm jabs against Covid-19. Immi...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vaccination goes to prisons
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) has launched the first phase of the vaccination programme where its workforce will receive the voluntary Sinopharm jabs. The developme...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe vaccination drive moves a gear up
THE Covid-19 vaccination drive will move a gear up today following the delivery of doses to all the provinces and districts at the weekend. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sat...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Covid-19 vaccines are completely safe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, has urged Zimbabweans to embrace the ongoing Covid-19 national inoculation programme, saying the vaccines are completely safe.This comes after the country c...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccines arrive
THE first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, which arrive in the country early tomorrow morning, will undergo rigorous examination by a team of local multidisciplinary experts over the next 48 hours after ar...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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