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Bodies from SA congest Bulawayo cemeteries
By SILAS NKALA
BODIES repatriated from South Africa are topping the list of burials at most Bulawayo cemeteries, with council expressing concern that residents were not adhering to the 30 stipulated numbers of people allowed per burial, council minutes show.
Zimbabwe in general, and Bulawayo in particular, has been recording an influx of bodies transported into the country, with most of them taken for burial in rural areas.
However, according to latest council minutes, health services director Edwin Sibanda reported that Bulawayo’s cemeteries had recorded high numbers of burials of bodies repatriated from South Africa.
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By Bulawayo Correspondent
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of Covid-19 vaccination cards and registers, a development which has resulted in some people failing to acquire proof they have been inoculated.
The city is reported to be also fast running out of vaccination doses.
Bulawayo has to date received 63 200 vaccines of Sinopharm and Sinovac and average of 3 000 people visit the city’s vaccination centres daily.
Speaking at the Bulawayo Metropolitan inter-ministerial Covid-19 task taskforce meeting held in the city this week, Bulawayo City Director of Health Services, Edwin Sibanda said as a result of the vaccination cards shortage, council was forced to request Matabeleland North and South provinces to provide them with some.