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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Reuters<\/b> – ZIMBABWE\u2019S government said Friday citizens should not panic because it had enough Covid-19 vaccines for those needing a second shot after some centres ran out of doses this week and turned people away.<\/p>\n

The southern African nation, which aims to vaccinate 10 million people by the end of the year, has to date received just over 1.735 million doses from Sinopharm, Sinovac, and Covaxin.<\/p>\n

Some 684,164 people have received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine while another 364,240 got their second shot.<\/p>\n

Agnes Mahomva, the national coordinator on government\u2019s response to Covid-19, told state broadcaster ZBC that just over a million doses had been used so far and that those needing second shots would get them.<\/p>\n

Mahomva said centres that were vaccinating faster than others, especially in Harare and second biggest city Bulawayo, had run out vaccines.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what the ministry is doing is redistributing vaccines,\u201d Mahomva said. \u201cThe message that I want to bring out to the public is \u2018please don\u2019t panic\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doses are there, they are not in the large numbers that we would like but then that is the challenge that the whole world is facing,\u201d said Mahomva.<\/p>\n

She said Zimbabwe would take another shipment of vaccines \u201cany minute now\u201d without saying from where.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe has so far shunned Western vaccines, preferring to use those from China, India and Russia.<\/p>\n

Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube in April promised to procure 1 million doses a month but this has not yet happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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