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By Anna Chibamu ZIMBABWE’S lawmakers have demanded that they be vaccinated immediately against Covid-19 as they are a top priority and frontline personnel at risk of contracting the deadly virus. The MPs have questioned why the government has not included them in the high risk sector of people being vaccinated against the scourge. MDC Alliance MP and Health and Child Care Parliamentary Portfolio Committee chairperson Ruth Labode said legislators were demanding to be considered a top priority and get inoculated urgently. Zimbabwe took delivery of 600 000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines ...

‘We might not meet vaccine demand’ BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA/LORRAINE MUROMO PARLIAMENTARY Portfolio Committee on Health chairperson Ruth Labode yesterday expressed concern over government’s capacity to meet demand for COVID-19 vaccines, given that the country currently only has 200 000 doses donated by China. Labode said this during a virtual discussion organised by the Southern African Parliamentary Support Trust to debate the country’s COVID-19 rollout plan currently underway, targeting frontline workers. Zimbabwe last week took delivery of 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from C...

Ruth Labode CHAIRPERSON of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health Ruth Labode has called for an immediate end to the lockdown arguing any further restrictions would result in the crumbling of an already battered economy. The government imposed Covid-19 restrictions six weeks ago, which saw most informal traders and non-essential close while only 10% of government employees are now reporting for work. However, Labode said since the government had announced the Covid-19 vaccine would be rolled out soon, and in view of declining cases, it made economic sense to start easing the restrict...

‘Zim has capacity to buy Covid-19 drugs’ Political Editor Zimbabwe, which has accelerated testing of Covid-19 around the country, has the capacity to acquire vaccines for the novel virus that has been spiking in the country since the start of the year, a top Government official has said. This comes as the Government has assured the nation that no one will be left behind once the country procures vaccines against the virus, with a technical team being assembled to identify the jabs options from the United States, Russia, China and India. President Mnangagwa last weekend assured the country...