Pressure is mounting on SA’s President Cyril Ramaphosa to contain the corona virus pandemic as he places the country back on a strict level-4 lockdown, with restrictions including a ban on all alcohol sales and gathering of more than 50, for the next 14 days.
The restrictions may then be extended further, pending a review of the situation.
"In considering what new measures we have to take we have drawn on international best practice. Our priority is to break the chain of transmission by reducing person-to-person contact, like we did with the first wave and the second wave,” said President Ramaphosa.
The only sure way to contain the corona virus pandemic is by vaccinating as many people as quickly as possible. SA’s vaccination programme must be one of the slowest amount the middle income nations! Indeed some of the poorest and corrupt nations like Zimbabwe are doing a hell lot better than SA!
Cyril Ramamposa is not corrupt, at least not as corrupt as Zuma, and Alas that is all one can say of him. At a lime like this, SA needed a visionary leader and find herself ruled by a man who does not even have common sense!
In Zimbabwe we have had the great misfortune of being stuck for 41 years and counting with corrupt, incompetent, murderous and vote rigging thugs. We had the opportunity to end the dictatorship but the corrupt and incompetent MDC sell-outs wasted it. To find oneself ruled by buffoons during devastating pandemic like this corona virus is the stuff of hell-on-earth!
Zimbabwe’s official per capita corona virus cases and deaths are infinitely better than those of SA but that in because Zimbabwe has not been testing for the virus. At the peak of the last wave, when SA was doing over 44 000 tests per day and Zimbabwe, with 1/4 SA’s population, should have been doing over 11 000 test. We very rarely did more than 1 500 test per day!
Zimbabwe’s real per capita corona virus cases and deaths are far worse than the Zanu PF regime is letting on.
SA’s health care system is basic in most cases but at least it is still there. Zimbabwe’s health care service has all but collapsed after decades of under funding. Most of the time health care workers are on strike, protesting their slave wages, and most have left the country in search of a living wage.
“The biggest referral hospital in Zimbabwe, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, cancelled 1 688 surgical operations in one year, owing to a lack of medical equipment,” reported Bridget Mananavire in The News Hawks last week.
“In her 2019 audit report on state enterprises and parastatals, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri said this may compromise health service delivery. She also found that during the year under review (2018) the hospital did not have adequate monitors in anaesthetic rooms and recovery areas, with only eight out of 18 stations in use.
“The hospital’s management, in response to the audit findings, said the cancellation of surgical operations had also been influenced by job action by the health sector, poor preparation of patients and shortage of intensive care unit (ICU) beds, among other challenges.”
If the referral hospitals have no equipment and staff, how much worse off are the provincial hospital, district hospitals, etc. If the health service can not deal with the run of the mill illnesses, they certainly cannot deal with the more demand corona virus cases. It is therefore not surprising that most hospitals in Zimbabwe have been sending away corona virus patients!
There is heavy human traffic, both legal and illegal, between Zimbabwe and SA. It must be said, most of the travellers are Zimbabweans. Ever since Zimbabwe’s dramatic economic collapse in 2000 to 2008, when inflation peak at 500 billion per cent, many Zimbabweans left the country for SA as political and/or economic refugees or worked as cross border vendors. And it is therefore not surprising that the corona virus pandemic outbreak in the two countries have been a mirror image one the other. The corona virus cases and deaths in the two countries should therefore be similar too.
According Johns Hopkins corona virus tracking report, as of today 28 June 2021 SA has 1 928 897 cases and 59 900 deaths and Zimbabwe, with 1/4 SA’s population, should have over 457 000 cases and 14 000 deaths. Johns Hopkins report says the country has 46 442 cases and 1 736 deaths; roughly 10%. What is really shocking is that many Zimbabweans have accepted the official Zanu PF figures as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but truth.
Whilst there is growing pressure on SA’s President Cyril Ramaphosa to accelerate the country’s vaccination programme there is no such pressure on Mnangagwa. Zimbabweans have been duped into believing a country whose health care has collapsed, is hardly testing for the virus, etc. is doing a better job of contain the corona virus that the countries with working health care services and are at least making a concerted effort to follow the WHO testing and tracking guidelines.
If President Cyril Ramaphosa does not pull up his socks, then he and, if need be, his ANC regime will be booted out of office. Thank God SA is still very much a healthy and functioning democratic nation. Sadly, the same cannot be said about Zimbabwe.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime have rigged elections since the country’s independence in 1980 and with not even one token reform on place Zanu PF is set to rig the 2023 elections.
Indeed, the party has just confirmed that Zimbabweans in the diaspora will once again be denied the vote.
"I cannot go to campaign in the United Kingdom because of sanctions as we all know and as long as that situation persists, we will say no vote to people in the diaspora because we will be allowing only those who have been asking for sanctions to have access to that electorate,” announced Patrick Chinamasa, Zanu PF’s national political commissar.
"That of course is not acceptable, and we will not allow it. Sanctions must fall and then we will start talking about diaspora vote.”
Of course, this is nonsense! The majority of Zimbabweans in the diaspora are in the SADC countries and Chinamasa and his Zanu PF colleagues are free to travel in all these countries. So why are Zimbabweans in these countries being denied their right to vote too!
The right to a meaningful say in the governance of one’s country is a birth and an inalienable right that cannot be denied at a the whim of a dictator.
The real reason Zanu PF is denying Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote is because most of them are political and/or economic refugees. They blame Zanu PF for this and are therefore not likely to vote for the party. And Zanu PF has very few opportunities to rig the diaspora vote, unlike the rural voters back in Zimbabwe the party corral like cattle.
There are 3 to 5 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora or 40% of the potential vote. How can the elections be lawful, free, fair and credible when one contestant can cherry pick and deny 40% the electorate the vote!
Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections have been rigged in advance.
The only reason why Chamisa and his fellow opposition opportunists insist in participate in these flawed elections is because they are after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait. By participating in the flawed election Chamisa et all are giving the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
It is bad enough that Zimbabwe was already in a serious economic and political mess at the on set of the corona virus in February 2020. Zanu PF’s blundering incompetence in the handling of the pandemic will make the situation even worse than if we had a competent and democratically accountable government.
The prospect of having this Zanu PF dictatorship beyond the 2023 elections is real and frightens the hell out of me! If Zimbabweans participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms then they will be giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF. It is insane to believe the opposition can win rigged elections!
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When Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe, his whole intention was to sanitize himself from the genocide, an albatross on his neck. He did what he knows best. He set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that would give a semblance of a solution to solve the genocide past. With the assistance of his Vice President Kembo Mohadi, he carefully selected a legal commission who were given a compromised mandate to water-down Gukurahundi atrocities as much as it is possible and this commission included Advocate Nari, a blue-boy of Kembo Mohadi, he heads the commission: nobody knows if Advocate Nare is coming or going: he appears to be clueless ever since he was given the mandate.
When the Peace and Reconciliation commission started its work in the region, evidence on the ground has it that people were threatened never to say much about the past atrocities but instead, leave out much evidence because it can be dangerous to them if they told the truth, divulge evidence as they experienced it. This is how Kembo Mohadi got the presidency in Mnangagwa's administration to supress facts of Gukurahundi atrocities. Remember too, this is how Phekelezela Mpoko got his presidency from Mugabe. Mpoko, in his excitable condition started talking about the Gukurahundi atrocities as a conspiracy of the western countries: hallucinating is the correct predicate to describe Mpoko during those hey days.
When Emmerson Mnangagwa thought he had used Mohadi enough, he jettisoned him from the government. This is not typical Mnangagwa style only; its typical Zanu PF ever since its inception. Enos Nkala died a bitter man. When Mugabe did not want him; he had used Nkala enough against his arch-enemy Joshua Nkomo, he left him to dry. When Solomon Mujuru had died, there was no need to keep Joyce Mujuru in power; another evidence of how Zanu treats people be it Ndebele or Shona, it's the same.
Our Chiefs should be demanding the resignation of Mnangagwa as President of Zimbabwe. He has no right to be president of a country if he has blood in his hands. Our Chiefs should have boycotted conferences where they were addressed by president Mnangagwa. The Chiefs should refuse all government pecks that compromise their duties they command in their areas of dominance. Mnangagwa must go, must leave office. We cannot continue to be ruled by criminals and thugs.
To pick the weakest link: Obert Gutu and pounce on him, demand from him to resign is not only disingenuous, but it also shows duplicity and cowardice on the part of the Ndebele Chiefs. Cause and effect: Gutu is a small fry in the scheme of things. Mnangagwa is the cause of pain - cause. Gutu is rubbing the collective painful and chronic wound – effect.
I should remind my critiques that my totem is Ncube, in Shona, they say ndinoyera Soko; chihwamba makwakwa mukono we tsoko: Matambanadzo musiyandaita. Ndichasiya ndaita. I am deeply proud to be me.
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ReplyDeleteNomazulu, you have written many, many thought provoking articles and this is there in the top ten! Thank you very much!
I totally agree that the overwhelming majority of our traditional leaders, especially our Chiefs, sold-out to the white colonial oppressors before independence. They have selling out again to corrupt and murderous Zanu PF and/or the equally corrupt and incompetent opposition parties since independence.
In a country so impoverished that many provincial hospitals have no working ambulance muchness the smaller hospitals and yet the Zanu PF regime had the money to buy each and everyone of the country’s 270 chiefs a twin-cab 4X4 Isuzu truck @ US$ 50 000 plus in 2018. And last month Mnangagwa dished out the first 18 of the new Isuzu trucks for the 2023 elections. The chiefs have repaid Zanu PF by becoming the de facto Zanu PF political commissar, turning the rural voters into medieval serfs beholden to the overbearing chiefs and other Zanu PF operatives!
The traditional chiefs inherit their leadership position, they are not elected nor are they ever accountable to the people in any way. Given the destructive role chiefs have played before and after independence, these traditional roles are totally redundant in a democratic society and we must just scrap them!
The people of Zimbabwe have become expert at shooting ourselves in the foot! It is said you can fool some people all the time, fool all the people some of the time but cannot fool All the people All the time! After 41 years of being fooled by Zanu PF thugs, it is fair to say the regime has certainly fooled the overwhelming majority of Zimbabweans all the last 41 years!
ReplyDeleteThere is no excuse why many Zimbabweans out there have accepted the country’s official corona virus cases and deaths as the truth especially when the consequences of failing to test are that many people with the virus and should have been put into isolation were left to spread the virus far and wide. And so, by electing to say nothing about the regime’s failure to test and isolate as diligently as it should, Zimbabweans, especially those in the health profession have connived in the suffering and deaths of many.
With no reforms in place it is obvious Zanu PF will continue rigging the elections and by participating we are giving the regime legitimacy. It is insane to keep participating and yet that is what we continue to do!
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political mess is decades of bad governance, a man-made problem and therefore one well within our mortal powers to solve if we bothered to apply ourselves. We will continue to suffer and many will die unnecessarily until we roll up our shirt sleeves and finally deal with the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. No one is going to solve this problem for us! Many will help but only when they can see we are making an effort ourself.
“As the Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Youth Commander, Misheck Bunga, I submit that young voters notoriously neglect the importance of voting, but their voice is an important one on both sides of the entranceway to constitutional democracy. The desperate youths in Zimbabwe and the diaspora should know that key national issues in every election increasingly relate to the concerns of students and professionals between the ages of 18 and 35, making it essential for members within that age group to educate themselves on political issues and take to the polls. The youths constitute nearly 50% of the entire voter population that is why it is important to vote , especially if you fall within a crucial age group.”
ReplyDeleteSo you, Misheck Bunga, think MDC A lost the 2018 elections because “young voters notoriously neglect the importance of voting”! This is the fanatical tunnel vision mentality that landed us in this economic and political mess.
According to Professor Jonathan Moyo’s Excelgate book, Chamisa won 66% of the presidential vote in the July 2018 elections but Zanu PF rigged the process to give victory to Mnangagwa. Where does your “young voters notoriously neglect the importance of voting” fit in in this narrative?
"I cannot go to campaign in the United Kingdom because of sanctions as we all know and as long as that situation persists, we will say no vote to people in the diaspora because we will be allowing only those who have been asking for sanctions to have access to that electorate,” announced Patrick Chinamasa, Zanu PF’s national political commissar.
The real reasons Zanu PF is denying the 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote is a) Zanu PF knows many of them are economic and/or political refugees and blame the party for it and therefore are not likely to vote for Zanu PF and b) the party will have problems rigging the diaspora vote.
So 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora or 30% plus of the voters are once again being denied the vote in 2023. Again where does your “young voters notoriously neglect the importance of voting” fit in in this narrative?
The trouble with Zimbabwe elections is that Zanu PF rigs the elections, people like you, Bunga, and your leaders like Chamisa, Biti, Mwonzora, etc. do not want to deal with the problem of reforms and so you ignore the rigging and so make mountain out of molehill side issues.
By participating in these flawed and illegal elections, you lot are giving the vote rigging Zanu Pf legitimacy. When are you ever going to get that single political reality into your thick head!
“Young voters notoriously neglect the importance of voting!” How naive!
Zimbabwe's official covid-19 cases and deaths figures are ridiculous low and all because Zimbabwe has not been testing as rigorously as it should. During the last wave in December 2020 when SA was carrying out over 44 000 tests per day Zimbabwe, with 1/4 SA's population should have been carrying out over 11 000 tests per day was hardly doing 1 500 tests per day. We are still doing 4 003 tests per day even now!
ReplyDeleteBy failing to test and identify as many people with the virus as we can, means many people with the virus have been left in society to spread the virus far and wide!
Zimbabwe's vaccine rollout is painfully slow, just over 700 000 and 500 000 or 7% and 5% have received first and second vaccine jab. At this rate we will be very luck to hit our 10 million herd immunity this time next year! We are in the middle of a third wave right now and God knows how many people will die. Until we reach herd immunity we will remain vulnerable to more waves and therefore more lockdown, more economic disruptions and more deaths!
THE country recorded 13 more Covid-19 related deaths and 842 more new cases in the last 24-hours with hotspots suburbs in Bulawayo recording all the 57 cases in the city. All the cases are local transmissions.
ReplyDeleteSo far, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country stands at 47 284 with 1 749 deaths.
Zimbabwe’s official covid-19 cases and deaths are not a true reflection of the reality on the ground because the country has never carried out the test, trace, track and isolate with the diligence and focus the matter demanded. During the last December corona virus wave affecting both SA and Zimbabwe; whilst SA was carrying out over 44 000 tests per day and Zimbabwe with 1/4 SA’s population was expected to do over 11 000 test per day was only managing 1 100 tests per day! That is 10%!
You can only report a corona virus case or death if the individual was tested of the virus and test came out positive. And so for the cynical Zanu PF regime, obsessed about portraying itself as a competent regime for the sake of hiding its blundering incompetence, its course of action was never in any doubt - the number of covid-19 tests must be kept to a bear minimum to keep the number of cases and deaths artificially low.
No sooner was corona virus declares a pandemic that Zanu PF passed a draconian law designed to silence anyone who dared report the truth about the country’s covid-19 situation. Only the regime was allowed to report of corona virus anyone giving a contradicting position risked a 20 year jail term!
SA’s corona virus cases and death toll stands at nearly 2 million and 60 000 respectively. Zimbabwe’s cases and deaths must be 500 000 and 15 000 a far cry from the official figures of 47 000 and 1 700 or 10% of the real figures!
By not testing widely Zimbabwe has therefore missed on the followup of isolation; many people who should have gone into isolation have been left to mingle and spread the virus far and wide. Zanu PF has managed to keep the covid-19 figures low and brag about it but the tragic reality is doing so has helped the virus to spread and thus cause even more economic disruption, suffering and deaths than caused by rigorous testing and telling the truth!
The people of Zimbabwe must open their eyes and see the tragic reality of covid-19, it is a far cry from Zanu PF's illusion!
Many people do not appreciate that Mandela's greatest legacy was to give SA a strong democratic foundation. Zanu PF gave Zimbabwe the legacy of a corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship which is now so deeply rooted that dismantling it is near impossible.
ReplyDeleteSouth Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months by the highest court in the country.
ReplyDeleteThis came after the Constitutional Court found him guilty of contempt after defying the court's order to appear at an inquiry into corruption while he was president.
Mr Zuma's time in power, which ended in 2018, was dogged by graft allegations. Businessmen were accused of conspiring with politicians to influence the decision-making process.
This court case proves one thing - that SA’s democratic institutions are alive and kicking ass!
In 2014 Joice Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa, Rugare Gumbo and many other Zanu PF bigwigs were booted out of the party for no other reason than that they had supported Mujuru’s bid to become Vice President. When Mutasa threatened to challenge the dismissal. “In whose court?” thundered Mugabe. There was no judge in Zimbabwe who would handle the case and so the case was kicked into the thicket of prickle pears!
Many people do not appreciate that Mandela's greatest legacy was to give SA a strong democratic foundation. Zanu PF gave Zimbabwe the legacy of a corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship which is now so deeply rooted that dismantling it is near impossible.
1. Measures which take immediate effect for two weeks and will be reviewed thereafter.
ReplyDelete2. Commerce and industry are to open from 0800hrs to 1500hrs in compliance with the general curfew
This follows a recent surge in Covid-19 cases and subsequent to the localised lockdown measures introduced in places such Karoi, Kwekwe, Kariba and Chinhoyi.
3. Industry to decongest workplaces to 40%, all companies are directed to observe the WHO Covid-19 guidelines.
The lockdown, the economic disruption, the surging covid-19 cases, the suffering and the deaths were all expected. We all saw this coming and have done precious little about and now we paying dearly for it. Zimbabwe has not been testing, has done little to stop the Indian variant spreading, slow in rolling out the vaccination programme, etc., etc. Zanu PF’s blundering incompetence in the handling of the corona virus pandemic is costing the nation greatly and we are not out of the wood yet!
For 41 years and counting, Zimbabweans have done very little to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance and the nation has paid dearly for it. The prospect of having a corrupt and tyrannical government at a time like this, the corona virus running wild, is the stuff of nightmares! The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the reality they need to do something to end the curse!
Zanu PF's blundering incompetence in the handling of this covid-19 pandemic is going to cost the nation a pretty penny in terms of the economic disruption and the human suffering and deaths. For 41 years and counting the nation has done nothing to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. How long are we going to allow this curse and the madness that goes with it to continue?
ReplyDeleteTHE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has approved the use of Ivermectin human oral formulations for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 as the country battles a third wave of the highly infectious respiratory disease.
ReplyDeleteAnnouncing the development yesterday, MCAZ acting director-general Richard Rukwata said the drug, which is normally used to fight parasitic diseases on livestock, is still under several clinical studies to check on its safety and efficacy in treating coronavirus infections in human beings.
The third wave has forced the country to put in place localised lockdowns in small cities where there is a surge in cases.
"The authority sought approval from the secretary of the Ministry of Health and Child Care to establish a framework that would provide guidance on the use of Ivermectin in COVID-19, in the form of operational research," Rukwata said
The regime is now conducting dangerous experiments on human beings! The country’s health care service has all but completely collapse, it does not have staff to do route stuff but now claim to have staff to do serious research!
GOVERNMENT has set July 14 as the deadline for the vaccination of frontline workers with those who would have shunned the exercise losing out on Covid-19 insurance payouts.
ReplyDeleteVaccinated frontline workers who test positive will, however, still be eligible for the Covid-19 insurance pay out.
Cabinet also noted with concern that the surge of Covid-19 reported the previous week persisted with 3 882 cases recorded during the period under review, compared to 1 239 reported the previous week. The majority of cases were recorded in Mashonaland West (1 798), Mashonaland Central (1 375) and Midlands (493).
The public is also discouraged from visiting or transiting through hotspots which are:
Kariba, Karoi, Makonde, Chinhoyi, Mhangura, Chidamwoyo, Magunje, Chirundu and suburbs in Bulawayo which Nkulumane, Emakhandeni and northern suburbs.
Mount Darwin, Chiredzi and Kwekwe were also identified as hotspots. In her post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said despite having been given an opportunity to vaccinate ahead of others, 20 percent of frontline workers did not heed to the call.
WHO approved the first covid-19 vaccine in December 2020 and by end of February 2021 there were at least five vaccines on the market. And yet seven months later, Zimbabwe had procured a misery 1.8 million vaccine doses, not enough to double jab 5% of the target 10 million herd immunity. The shortage of vaccines has been a serious problem here and it is the regime’s fault. It is therefore shocking that the regime is now seeking to punish health care workers who have not been vaccinated as if they are the ones to blame.
PARLIAMENT has invited members of the public to nominate knowledgeable people of integrity to serve in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) as three commissioners are expected to retire from the institutions in the next three months.
ReplyDeleteThe Zec commissioners whose terms are coming to an end are deputy chairperson Emmanuel Magade and Dr Qhubani Moyo while in the ZHRC, Comm Sheila Hilary Matindike's tenure ends in September.
Comm Sheila Hilary Matindike In a statement on yesterday, the Parliament's Committee on Standing Rules and Orders (CSRO) said the public should have nominated individuals to replace the three commissioners by July 16.
This is a waste of time because these two commissions; just like the rest of the country’s other institutions like Police, Judiciary, etc.; must be reformed if they are ever to be relevant and effective.
Zanu PF declares Father Emmanuel Ribeiro a national hero.
ReplyDeleteFor the record. the many Catholic Church leaders supported the fight for independence but very quickly fell out of favour with Zanu PF leaders because they did not support Zanu PF thugs' oppression of the ordinary Zimbabweans. Zanu PF thugs have tried to cleanse the regime's evil reputation by coopting as outstanding and respected Zimbabweans as supporters of the regime, especially after their death and therefore are in no position to set the record right!
ESWATINI’S prime minister has denied that King Mswati III has fled to South Africa following clashes between the security forces and demonstrators.
ReplyDeletePro-democracy protests intensified overnight in the country, formerly known as Swaziland, with government buildings, shops and trucks set alight.
The 53-year-old king, who came to the throne 35 years ago, rules by decree.
His critics accuse him, and his 15 wives, of leading a lavish lifestyle and treating opponents harshly.
A government based on a few individuals exercising absolute power either because they inherited it or they rig elections to falsify their mandate have been proven to be a disaster. The Greeks gave human kind an answer to autocracy and totalitarian rule - democracy. It is shocking that 2 500 years after the Greeks gave us the answer we, in Africa, are still stuck with autocracy or worse! We are slow learners and no wonder Africa has remained in the dark-ages even now when the rest of the world has moved on!
King Mswati III, just like our traditional chiefs and the Zanu PF thugs in Zimbabwe, must go!
Father Ribeiro buried at Hero's Acre
ReplyDeleteFor the record. the many Catholic Church leaders supported the fight for independence but very quickly fell out of favour with Zanu PF leaders because they did not support Zanu PF thugs' oppression of the ordinary Zimbabweans. Zanu PF thugs have tried to cleanse the regime's evil reputation by coopting as outstanding and respected Zimbabweans as supporters of the regime, especially after their death and therefore are in no position to set the record right!
It is ironic that Zimbabwe has amassed more national heroes and heroines in 41 years than nations like UK have done in the last 400 years and yet the country has sunk deeper and deeper into hopelessness and despair. Indeed, many of the so-called national heroes are the ones who have dragged the nation into this hell-on-earth. There is no honour in being called a national hero especially by these Zanu PF thugs and murderers!
10 389 tests carried out in one day! Until a few days ago, Zimbabwe was doing 2 000 or so tests per day! If this is true, then congratulations to VP Chiwenga and his team, this is the one thing the buffoon has ever done right and we must be forever grateful for these little mercies.
ReplyDeleteThe vaccination programme was rolled out in February and five months down the line will we have vaccinated is nearly 800 000 and 600 000 first jab and second jab respectively. This is simply not good enough! We have to vaccinate 10 million people with two jabs and at this current rate of 16 000 jabs per day we will be very luck to achieve our target June 2023!
Zimbabwe is experiencing a third wave of corona virus cases, the official figures are just another one of the Zanu PF regime's many lies; the prospect of the country having to suffer similar outbreaks for another six months is unthinkable much less for another two years! And yet, with the country's collapsed health service, we will be very luck to hit our herd immunity target in June 2023; for such is the price the nation must pay for being a Banana Republic governed by buffoons!
ZIMBABWE's government has turned down a donation of three million doses from the African Union (AU) of the highly potent single dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine citing lack of storage facilities.
ReplyDelete"The government of Zimbabwe notes that there is an allocation of the Johnson and Johnson vaccines for August 2021. However, I wish to advise that the government of Zimbabwe is not yet ready to participate in the August allocation as measures are still being put in place to establish the cold chain management framework for the vaccines, as well as on management of the anticipated adverse effects of the vaccines following inoculation," Guvamatanga wrote.
Vaccinating is the only way to contain this corona virus and given that we are lagging behind in our vaccination programme mainly because of the worldwide shortage of the vaccines it is therefore shocking that we should be offered the vaccine and refuse it. This is just unbelievable