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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwe\u2019s average weekly COVID-19 vaccination rate last week fell to its lowest since July, raising fears that the country could fail to vaccinate 60% of the population needed to attain herd immunity by year-end and be ravaged by the fourth wave of coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n

Government data showed that since the vaccination programme started in mid-February this year, 2.312 million, about 15.6% of the population, had been fully inoculated by 3 October.<\/p>\n

The average number of people who got their first doses peaked at around 37 000 per day in mid-July when the country was in the middle of the third wave but dropped to less than 10 000 per day in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Health experts said the public had become complacent, disregarding COVID-19 protocols.<\/p>\n

Speaking to NewsDay, COVID-19 national taskforce chief co-ordinator Agnes Mahomva had this to say:<\/p>\n

We will never give up working towards achieving our ambitious target of vaccinating 60% of our population by year-end.<\/p>\n

It is, however, determined by a number of factors such as the willingness of the public to take the vaccine.<\/p>\n

As long as the public is not willing to get vaccinated, then we will not reach the number we are targeting.<\/p>\n

The other issue is that reaching herd immunity depends on the availability of the vaccines.<\/p>\n

However, the government remains committed to ensuring that it avails vaccine doses at any given time so that people get vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Community Working Group on Health executive director Itai Rusike said the falling vaccination numbers was because of poor strategic planning. Said Rusike:<\/p>\n

The current vaccination strategy lacks focus on people and the community.<\/p>\n

The issue of misinformation and lack of trust in the community with respect to COVID-19 vaccines and even the pandemic itself needs to be tackled by carrying out a sustained COVID-19 health literacy at the community level to dispel myths about vaccines so that we can increase vaccine uptake by building community confidence and acceptance.<\/p>\n

He urged people to get vaccinated ahead of the fourth wave expected to hit the country in December.<\/p>\n

Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association president Johannes Marisa called for a massive awareness campaign to encourage voluntary vaccination.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe was listed among the 15 African countries that have achieved the World Health Organisation set target to fully vaccinate 10% of their populations by September this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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