{"id":35974,"date":"2021-03-04T22:31:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=35974"},"modified":"2021-03-04T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:52:02","slug":"zimbabwe-authorizes-use-of-indias-first-indigenous-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-authorizes-use-of-indias-first-indigenous-covid-19-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Authorizes Use Of India\u2019s First Indigenous Covid-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>Xinhua<\/b> &#8211; Zimbabwe has authorized the use of COVAXIN, India\u2019s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, the Indian Embassy in Harare announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZimbabwe has authorized use of COVAXIN, India\u2019s indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first country in Africa to do so. Trying to get it to Zimbabwe at an early date,\u201d the embassy said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>While comment could not be immediately obtained from the Zimbabwean health ministry, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa revealed last month that Zimbabwe will receive a donation of 75,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to our Indian friends for committing to donate 75,000 COVID vaccines and the opportunity to buy more moving forward,\u201d Mnangagwa said.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe began rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination program last month using the 200,000 Sinopharm vaccines donated by China.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccination started with frontline workers, as the country targets to inoculate at least 10 million of its 16 million citizens to achieve herd immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe has also purchased 600,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses, which are expected to arrive in the country this month.<\/p>\n<p>The southern African country is also in advanced negotiations to acquire the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, more vaccines are being sourced from the World Health Organization-backed COVAX scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Xinhua &#8211; Zimbabwe has authorized the use of COVAXIN, India\u2019s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, the Indian Embassy in Harare announced Thursday. \u201cZimbabwe has authorized use of COVAXIN, India\u2019s indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first country in Africa to do so. Trying to get it to Zimbabwe at an early date,\u201d the embassy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-35974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"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>Zimbabwe Authorizes Use Of India\u2019s First Indigenous Covid-19 Vaccine - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Xinhua - Zimbabwe has authorized the use of COVAXIN, India\u2019s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, the Indian Embass ...\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-authorizes-use-of-indias-first-indigenous-covid-19-vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zimbabwe Authorizes Use Of India\u2019s First Indigenous Covid-19 Vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Xinhua - 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