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MDC Organising Secretary Amos Chibaya and Secretary General Chalton Hwende
A shock defection by a senior official has triggered soul searching in the MDC Alliance amid claims that some of the party’s problems are self-inflicted.
MDC Alliance deputy treasurer general Lillian Timveos was last week paraded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House after she defected to the ruling Zanu PF.
Timveos said it had dawned on her that opposition politics had nothing to offer in Zimbabwe and praised Zanu PF’s “progressive policies”.
She was joined at State House by former MDC-T secretary for local government Blessing Chebundo, who also joined Zanu PF.
By Anna Chibamu
ZIMBABWE’S lawmakers have demanded that they be vaccinated immediately against Covid-19 as they are a top priority and frontline personnel at risk of contracting the deadly virus.
The MPs have questioned why the government has not included them in the high risk sector of people being vaccinated against the scourge.
MDC Alliance MP and Health and Child Care Parliamentary Portfolio Committee chairperson Ruth Labode said legislators were demanding to be considered a top priority and get inoculated urgently.
Zimbabwe took delivery of 600 000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines from China last week and the vaccination programme started last weekend.
‘We might not meet vaccine demand’
BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA/LORRAINE MUROMO
PARLIAMENTARY Portfolio Committee on Health chairperson Ruth Labode yesterday expressed concern over government’s capacity to meet demand for COVID-19 vaccines, given that the country currently only has 200 000 doses donated by China.
Labode said this during a virtual discussion organised by the Southern African Parliamentary Support Trust to debate the country’s COVID-19 rollout plan currently underway, targeting frontline workers.
Zimbabwe last week took delivery of 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China, with donations from Russia still to be delivered.
“We are not going to have only one vaccine in Zimbabwe, but we are going to have more, we are expecting the Covax vaccine from the African Union (AU), but my concern is not on the effectiveness of the vaccines, but the ability to carry out the vaccination plan if we got only 200 000 doses from China,” Labode said.
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