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Zimbabwe launches T-Cell HIV vaccine trial

Zimbabwe has taken a historic step in the global fight against HIV with the launch of a groundbreaking vaccine trial led by local and regional scientists. The Mutala Trustâ€™s Infectious Disease Research Laboratory has become the epicentre…

Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 09:48hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter

Vaccine hesitancy a threat to Zimbabwe's immunisation drive

Vaccine hesitancy, once largely associated with impoverished communities and apostolic sects, is now increasingly taking root among Zimbabwe's wealthy urban elite, sparking concern among health experts.According to the 2024 WHO/UNICEF Esti…

Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 12:51hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter

Cholera vaccinations start next week

A TOTAL of 153 active cholera treatment centres have been set up across the country to curb the spread of the water-borne disease as cases continue to surge with the Ministry of Health and Child Care successfully applying for the allocatio…

Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 04:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

UK scientists are developing a vaccine for an unknown disease

UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as an insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown "Disease X".They have drawn up a threat list of animal viruses that are capable of infecting humans and could in future spread rapidly…

Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 45 | by Erick Matotoba

It's time we retrace our footsteps

Face contorted as a result of the bitter taste in their mouth, baby on her lap near a crackling fire, the African mother does the ritual dutifully without fail. Was this not an immune-boosting herbal vaccine, a practice with echoes in the …

Published: 24 May 2023 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

Zimbabwe to intensify COVID-19 vaccination

VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said the country would intensify COVID-19 child vaccination programmes in preparation for schools opening next week.Chiwenga, who doubles as Health and Child Care minister, made the remarks in …

Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Covid-19 testing scrapped for fully vaccinated arrivals

Covid-19 testing for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in Zimbabwe is no longer required, which should speed up business travel and help tourism, although the unvaccinated still have to present a recent negative test result.Cabinet agre…

Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:14hrs | 2 | 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 employees to be vaccinated.As a result, there …

Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | 3 | by Cephas Mavhondo

How safe are Covid19 Vaccines?

I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be  a Chinese disease which was going to start and end there in China.I remem…

Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 19:57hrs | 2 | by Etiwel Mutero

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 pharmaceutical giant, Sinopharm.Increased dema…

Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter

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 has been the main vaccination point in Harare, w…

Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:49hrs | 12 | 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 inoculated. So far Bulawayo Province ha…

Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Private players will open path for counterfeit vaccines

Counterfeit drugs are a menace and a definite threat to global peace and stability. Inert drugs are being peddled on the drug market to an unassuming market with dire consequences. Entire communities are reeling from the vestiges of this p…

Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | 14 | by Sapien Sapien

Chinese vaccines inject fear into West as Zimbabwe rejoices

The coming in of Covid-19 has highly exposed global vulnerability. The pandemic has left the whole world puzzled, without any amenable solution to the devastating effects. But the vaccination programme all over the word is throwing some in…

Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Dylan Chiwawa

Mutambara speaks about Chinese vacine trials

Former Zimbabwean Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says if the Chinese were in a proactive and empowering partnership with Harare, clinical trials should have been done on the Sinopharm vaccine against the virulent SA Covid-19 varian…

Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 20:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

Covid-19 vaccination must be compulsory

THE ministry of Health and Child Care says Zimbabwe will start receiving Covid-19 vaccines from the Ides of February.China and Russia - you guessed right - and maybe India also, will give us the stuff.There is both good and bad news in the…

Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:33hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni

23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, says officials

The New York Post reported that Twenty-three people died in Norway within days of receiving their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, with 13 of those deaths - all nursing home patients - apparently related to the side effects of th…

Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Covid-19 where does Africa stand?

Theorists and gossipers are in sixth gear with discussions swirling around great conspiracy to wipe out a big chunk of the world population leaving only a small controllable and compliant size. Some fundis and terrace observers attribute t…

Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 11:34hrs | 2 | by Murisa

40 million South Africans to receive COVID-19 vaccine in 2021

Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday that the government was committed to rolling out vaccines with urgency to establish herd immunity against Covid-19.Speaking during a virtual public briefing, outlining the Department of Health's …

Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 17:59hrs | | by Staff reporter

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