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By Costa Nkomo
THE government has nearly exhausted the US$100 million facility for the Covid-19 vaccines after purchasing 12 million Chinese made doses enough to inoculate six million people.
The government has announced an ambitious target of inoculating 10 million people by December and achieve national herd immunity.
The complete vaccination of an individual requires two shots in the arm.
In January this year, the government through Treasury announced it had budgeted US$100 million for procuring Covid-19 vaccines.
However, speaking at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport Sunday, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube, who was in the company of Deputy Health Minister John Mangwiro, receiving an extra one million doses of the vaccines, announced the government had to date purchased 12 million doses.