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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By James Muonwa<\/b> – SCORES of undocumented citizens are being turned away from Covid-19 vaccination centres because they do not have the relevant national identity cards.<\/p>\n

A snap survey conducted by NewZimbabwe.com this week in Chinhoyi, Kariba, Norton, Kadoma, Chegutu, Mutorashanga, Banket and Karoi revealed a number of people intending to get inoculated against Covid-19 had been turned away after failing to produce identity documents.<\/p>\n

One is required to produce a national ID, driver\u2019s licence or a valid passport to be eligible for vaccination.<\/p>\n

Most of the people who are being turned are descendants of migrant workers who came into Zimbabwe decades ago from neighbouring Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.<\/p>\n

These undocumented people are mostly concentrated in farming and mining communities.<\/p>\n

At Chinhoyi Hall Wednesday, Ellen Kariwo (33) walked away dejected after nurses told her only documented citizens were eligible for vaccination.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came here wishing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after l heard on radio and through a public address system that there was free mass vaccination. However, my hopes were dashed because l don\u2019t have an ID card,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am an orphan and my only surviving uncle failed to facilitate that l get a birth certificate long back because he, himself, doesn\u2019t have an identity card.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Norton, 46-year-old Dyton Evaristo, also an undocumented alien citizen, said he had unsuccessfully tried to get vaccinated using a friend\u2019s identity card after pleas to health authorities for a waiver hit a brick wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to reason with the nurses that l don\u2019t have a birth certificate nor an identity card, but they didn\u2019t want to hear me out. I have resigned to fate and l am now at the mercy of this deadly Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A health official, who declined to be named said IDs were important in order to maintain accurate records of people vaccinated and managing the inventory and procurement of the vaccines.<\/p>\n

However, efforts to get a comment from Mashonaland West provincial acting medical director, Gift Masoja, over the issue were fruitless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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