Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Thursday received his second Sinopharm dose at Wilkins Hospital in Harare.
The VP was the first Zimbabwean to receive the jab on February 18 as the country began its roll out of the COVID-19 vaccination program.
Chiwenga said vaccination was the best weapon against the virus, adding that the government was hiring retired health workers to speed up the pace of inoculation.
“We are engaging them because if we are to achieve the 60 percent herd immunity, we have to do it faster and we have to have enough manpower on the ground,” he said.
Zimbabwe has so far received two batches of the Sinopharm vaccine donated by China, and an additional batch of Sinovac doses which were purchased from the Asian country.
At least 37,000 people have been vaccinated in Zimbabwe, against a targeted population of 10 million, since the inoculation program started a month ago.
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