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All in place for teachers’ inoculation
Debra Matabvu
The GOVERNMENT has undertaken to vaccinate all teachers who are prepared to receive Covid-19 immunisation jabs immediately after schools reopen next week as authorities ramp up efforts to create a safe learning environment.
Authorities are doubling efforts to procure more doses in preparation for the second phase of the national vaccination programme, which targets to inoculate lecturers at tertiary institutions, teachers and others at medium risk from the respiratory virus.
Last week, the World Health Organisation-led Covax facility allocated 984 000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to Zimbabwe under a revised allocation schedule published by the global vaccine alliance.
ZEC begins delimitation process
Debra Matabvu
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has begun drawing up new National Assembly constituency boundaries that will be used for the 2023 harmonised elections.
ZEC has started undertaking the first phase of the delimitation exercise, which involves updating polling stations and adding new residential areas into the voter registration database ahead of next year’s boundary mapping process.
The elections management body has begun mobilising $10 billion required for the expansive nationwide exercise, which is carried out after every 10 years.
The Sunday Mail has gathered that delimitation will be undertaken in three phases, starting with a mass voter registration blitz, which has already commenced under Phase One.
Prices set to fall
Debra Matabvu
THE anticipated relaxation of the Level Four national lockdown restrictions will result in a stabilisation of prices of basic goods and services, on account of increased production by the manufacturing sector, which was being hampered by stringent operational conditions.
A festive season price rally witnessed the prices of some basic goods and services going up between December and January, prompting authorities to launch an investigation into the pricing turbulence.
Preliminary findings from the ongoing official inquiry show that increased demand over the festive season holiday, coupled with depressed production during the Level Four national lockdown, were behind the pricing madness.