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| Ezra Chadzamira |
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| Victor Matemadanda |
…say it is up to individuals to save their
lives
Upenyu Chaota
Minister
of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs and Devolution Ezra Chadzamira
together with Zanu PF national political commissar and deputy Defense minister
Victor Matemadanda have rallied the people of Masvingo and Zimbabwe at large to
take the Chinese donated SinoPharm Covid-19 vaccine.
Zimbabwe
has rolled out the 200 000 doses of SinoPharm Covid-19 vaccines donated by
China in a phase one which will target frontline workers on voluntary basis.
Speaking
to the media soon after getting their first jab at Benjamin Burombo building
yesterday, Chadzamira and Matemadanda called on all progressive Zimbabweans to
take the vaccine and save their lives.
Zimbabwe
targets to vaccinate about 10 million people to achieve head count immunity
against the Covid-19 disease.
Matemadanda
said Zimbabweans should disregard messages doing rounds on social media
discrediting the effectiveness of the Chinese vaccine.
He said
there are trade wars surrounding the Covid-19 vaccines with each country
fighting to put their vaccine on top.
“What
we are seeing here are trade wars on the Covid-19 vaccines. The Americans are
not happy that the Chinese created a vaccine and are trying hard to make sure
that hey discredit anything that comes out of China.
“It is
unfortunate that some of our people are the ones being used by the Americans to
do a disservice to our country.
“There
are people who are claiming that once you get jabbed, you begin speaking
Chinese. They are making a mockery of their own lives yet it is them who should
survive. It is quite unfortunate that our people are being caught in the
crossfire,” said Matemadanda.
He said
President Mnangagwa and his government have done everything to make sure that
the people survive.
“President Mnangagwa and his government have
facilitated the immunization of people that want life. But if people are going
to play around with the process of immunization that is up to them.
“People
must get serious if they want to survive. The whole essence of this vaccination
is to save individual lives,” said Matemadanda.
Chadzamira
weighed in saying the vaccine was safe and called on the people from Masvingo
not to be caught up in the trade wars between super powers.
“We
received our first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine and it is safe. We call on our
people to get vaccinated because the life is theirs.
“Vaccination
is an individual decision made by people who want life. The government will
never allow a vaccine that will kill our people,” said Chadzamira.
Masvingo
received a share of 22 000 doses on the Chinese vaccine which is enough to
vaccinate 11 000 frontline workers with each receiving two.
Once
the first dose has been administered, one would wait for 28 days before they
could get their second doses.
Masvingo
journalists were among the frontline workers to receive their first shots of
the Chinese jab yesterday.
