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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Bloomberg<\/b> – ZIMBABWE ramped up daily Covid-19 vaccinations to a record as the government pins its hope on a faster rollout to help the economy recover from its second contraction into two years.<\/p>\n

On Thursday 29,750 people were vaccinated, the highest number since the public rollout plan began earlier this year. To date, 895,980 people have received their first dose and 595,417 a second, according to Ministry of Health data.<\/p>\n

The southern African country will now go \u201cfull throttle\u201d on its vaccination drive after receiving its biggest consignment of shots on Thursday of 2 million Sinovac vaccines, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube told reporters.<\/p>\n

The country is targeting 100,000 daily vaccinations to achieve herd immunity by year-end, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people are vaccinated it is easier for the government to open up all aspects of the economy, so it is also about economic recovery,\u201d Ncube said.<\/p>\n

The nation that is battling a surge in infections and one of the world\u2019s fastest pace of deaths from Covid-19 infections, last month announced new curbs to contain the spread.<\/p>\n

The country is forecasting economic growth of 7.4% this year after estimating a 4.2% contraction in 2020 and a 6% decline in 2019.<\/p>\n

To date, Zimbabwe, which has a population of about 15 million, has received 4.2 million vaccines while another 1.5 million doses are expected this week, according to Ncube.<\/p>\n

Convincing people to take the vaccines will be crucial to the country\u2019s rollout plan, said Norman Matara, secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Association for Doctors for Human Rights.<\/p>\n

The rollout that began Feb. 18 initially got off to a slow start. This was largely due to a shortage of vaccines as well as a lack of communication coupled with anti-vaccine propaganda and the haphazard way vaccines were being distributed, Matara said by phone Friday.<\/p>\n

Many of these issues have now been resolved. \u201cThe structures, the human resources are there and the vaccines are now there, but what is now needed is the buy-in to convince people to get vaccinated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Bloomberg – ZIMBABWE ramped up daily Covid-19 vaccinations to a record as the government pins its hope on a faster rollout to help the economy recover from its second contraction into two years. On Thursday 29,750 people were vaccinated, the highest number since the public rollout plan began earlier this year. 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