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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Reuters<\/b> – ZIMBABWE is aiming to vaccinate 1 million people against Covid-19 in the next two weeks, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday as he extended tough lockdown measures by another 14 days.<\/p>\n

Faced with rising infections and deaths, Mnangagwa on 29 June introduced tough lockdown measures that included a dusk-to-dawn curfew and curbs on inter-city travel.<\/p>\n

Mnangagwa said infections were rising at \u201can alarming rate\u201d as the more transmissible Delta variant spreads locally. He said the government would inoculate 1 million people during the extended lockdown period.<\/p>\n

The southern African nation has to date recorded 70 426 infections, a quarter of them in the past two weeks and 2 236 deaths, official data showed. More than 900 000 Zimbabweans have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cLatest genomic sequencing results received last week indicate that approximately 80% of the fresh cases in Zimbabwe are now due to the Delta variant,\u201d Mnangagwa said in a televised address.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe received its single biggest shipment of 2 million Covid-19 doses last week that it hopes will boost its vaccine drive. It expects another 3.5 million shots by the end of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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