Zimbabwe on Thursday become the first African country to authorise India’s COVAXIN coronavirus vaccine, just a day after the company announced an efficacy rate of 81% in Phase III trials. The Indian embassy in...
Zimbabwe will receive US$75 million over the next three years from the Global Fund, towards its efforts to fight COVID-19, Cabinet announced on Tuesday. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government says it plans to spend US$100...
A recent genomic sequencing study has confirmed the prevalence of the South African COVID-19 variant in Zimbabwe, Cabinet announced on Tuesday, as the country gets ready to start vaccinations on February 18. The virulent...
Government has sent out a message to its workers: if you're not vaccinated, don't come to work. In July, the Public Service Commission instructed that all heads of ministries ensure that all workers are...
Private companies can now import COVID-19 vaccines for staff and for donations, but all procurement will be done through government, according to new guidelines just issued by Cabinet. In a statement on Tuesday, government...
Tests have confirmed the presence in Zimbabwe of B.1.617, the COVID-19 variant first identified in India, the Ministry of Health says. VP Constantino Chiwenga said in a statement today that tests conducted on samples...
South Africa will offer its stock of coronavirus vaccines that were developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca to the African Union after they were found to have little impact on mild infections caused by a variant of the virus first...
The omicron variant of COVID-19 has now been detected in Zimbabwe, VP Constantino Chiwenga has said, urging more vigilance to prevent the spread of the virus. "We are doing the genomic sequencing, and we...
Government will open up COVID-19 vaccinations to groups that had been targeted for the second phase of the rollout, Cabinet said, a sign of slower-than-expected uptake of vaccines. The second phase includes staff in...
The US's Centres for Disease Control (CDC) now ranks Zimbabwe among safe countries with the lowest COVID-19 risk for travellers, according to an updated travel advisory. Zimbabwe has moved to Level 1, "Low Risk",...
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