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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga has volunteered to become the first Zimbabwean to be vaccinated against the coronavirus using the Chinese developed Sinopharm vaccine.<\/p>\n

Chiwenga received the Sinopharm jab on Thursday at a ceremony at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare that is set to signal the commencement of the country\u2019s vaccination programme.<\/p>\n

The Vice President volunteered to become the first recipient of the vaccine to assure health care workers who are set to benefit from the first phase of the vaccination programme.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe received a donation of 200 000 shots of the Sinopharm vaccine from The People\u2019s Republic of China on Monday and is set to start the inoculation of its citizens against the viral disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga has volunteered to become the first Zimbabwean to be vaccinated against the coronavirus using the Chinese developed Sinopharm vaccine. Chiwenga received the Sinopharm jab on Thursday at a ceremony at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare that is set to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1575,3105,3061,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-35093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-constantino-chiwenga","15":"tag-covid-vaccination","16":"tag-covid-19-vaccination","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nVP Chiwenga Vaccinated Against Coronavirus - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga has volunteered to become the first Zimbabwean ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/vp-chiwenga-vaccinated-against-coronavirus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VP Chiwenga Vaccinated Against Coronavirus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga has volunteered to become the first Zimbabwean ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/vp-chiwenga-vaccinated-against-coronavirus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-18T20:10:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-02-18T16:28:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/img-602e9599e9942.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"685\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/vp-chiwenga-vaccinated-against-coronavirus\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/vp-chiwenga-vaccinated-against-coronavirus\",\"name\":\"VP Chiwenga Vaccinated Against Coronavirus - 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