{"id":40481,"date":"2023-02-10T21:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign"},"modified":"2023-02-10T22:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:24:57","slug":"red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross intensifies Covid vaccination campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) says door-to-door vaccination is key to meeting the country\u2019s 70 percent vaccination target. It says the strategy has proven effective in cities such as Mzuzu.<\/p>\n<p>MRCS Saving Lives and Likelihood Project Coordinator Lekani Nyangulu said, since September last year, 2,000 people have been vaccinated in Mzuzu City. He said this in Mzuzu City when Red Cross volunteers mobilised people from townships as part of the Covid vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing people in their homes is proving to be successful. Our role, as MRCS, is to create demand for the vaccine using volunteers who are almost everywhere in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, we are happy with the response because people are coming forth to get vaccinated. Our role is to mobilise people for vaccination. We create demand and are happy that the response has been overwhelming,\u201d Nyangulu said.<\/p>\n<p>Village Head Mvalajembe, from Msongwe in the outskirts of Mzuzu City, said misconceptions about the vaccine delayed him and his subjects to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just had fears that the vaccine might have negative implications on our lives but our fears have been put to rest,\u201d Mvalajembe said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. The Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) says door-to-door vaccination is key to meeting the country\u2019s 70 percent vaccination target. It says the strategy has proven effective in cities such as Mzuzu. MRCS Saving Lives and Likelihood Project Coordinator Lekani Nyangulu said, since September last year, 2,000 people have been vaccinated in Mzuzu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,25],"tags":[233,371,3194,234,4776],"class_list":["post-40481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-featured","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-covid-vaccination","tag-malawi","tag-malawi-red-cross-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Red Cross intensifies Covid vaccination campaign - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) says door-to-door vaccination is key to meeting the country\u2019s 70 percent vaccination ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Red Cross intensifies Covid vaccination campaign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) says door-to-door vaccination is key to meeting the country\u2019s 70 percent vaccination ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-10T21:45:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-10T22:24:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676052945.78.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"724\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Red Cross intensifies Covid vaccination campaign\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-10T21:45:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-10T22:24:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676052945.78.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Covid vaccination\",\"Malawi\",\"Malawi Red Cross Society\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Featured\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/red-cross-intensifies-covid-vaccination-campaign\",\"name\":\"Red Cross intensifies Covid vaccination campaign - 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