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Government has said the recently received Sinopharm vaccines are targeted t vaccinate the identified Covid 19 hotspot areas aiming break the chains of infection in the areas.
In a statement Health and Child Care Deputy Minister Dr John Mangwiro said the latest batch of Sinopharm doses bought from China, on Saturday, would go a long way to cover all the areas classified as hotspots saying 500 000 vaccines are enough for 250 000 people to get both doses.
“The vaccines will be distributed to all the border towns, the areas that have been classified as hotspots, tobacco auction floors, cotton sales floors, GMB markets and market places like Mbare Musika, Renkini in Bulawayo and others. The Ministry of Finance has said after the two million doses arrive next week, we will receive more the following month,” he said.
Zimbabwe has seen rising cases over the past two weeks, most concentrated in a few districts and a number of more isolated hotspots, with an indication of the rise in infection being the two weeks which has seen the total number of active cases going up to 6 532 by Saturday, that is the number of people who became infected and are still recovering.
Mashonaland West, which holds three of the four districts under intensified local lockdown, saw more than half of the total number of new Zimbabwean cases over the weekend, 411 of the 801 recorded. Besides the Kariba, Hurungwe and Makonde districts, Kwekwe district, where the first case of the Delta variant was reported by a resident returning from India, is under the intensified special lockdown and warnings have been given about hotspots in Chiredzi and three northern suburbs of Bulawayo.
So far since the first case last year, Zimbabwe has recorded 46 018 cases of Covid-19, with 37 761 recoveries and 1 725 deaths.
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