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By Bulawayo Correspondent
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of Covid-19 vaccination cards and registers, a development which has resulted in some people failing to acquire proof they have been inoculated.
The city is reported to be also fast running out of vaccination doses.
Bulawayo has to date received 63 200 vaccines of Sinopharm and Sinovac and average of 3 000 people visit the city’s vaccination centres daily.
Speaking at the Bulawayo Metropolitan inter-ministerial Covid-19 task taskforce meeting held in the city this week, Bulawayo City Director of Health Services, Edwin Sibanda said as a result of the vaccination cards shortage, council was forced to request Matabeleland North and South provinces to provide them with some.
Nigeria on March 2, got delivered its first batch of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, becoming the third country in Africa to get the shots through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX), a global scheme formed to ensure fair access to vaccination for low- and middle-income states.
An aircraft belonging to Emirate Airlines made the delivery of about 3.94 million doses of the vaccine, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, in Abuja, part of the jabs that COVAX plans to deliver to the country over the coming months.
On March 5, the government commenced the vaccination of frontline healthcare workers in Abuja, followed by strategic leaders on March 8, whom they described as priority recipients.
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