Zimbabwe’s Second Biggest City Knocks on Doors With Covid Shots
- Two week vaccination blitz aims to increase vaccinations
- Struggle has moved from getting shots to administering them
Cowdray Park residents wait to receive their Covid-19 vaccines in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on Aug. 3, 2021.
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In Zimbabwe’s second-biggest city government medical staff are going door-to-door with Covid-19 vaccines in a bid to boost a stalled vaccine program in the latest indication of how Africa’s drive has now switched from sourcing doses to getting people to take them.
The two-week program in the city of Bulawayo, where at least 650,000 people live, began on Jan. 13 and will utilize both health ministry staff and city officials, according to a statement on Thursday. Mobile vaccination sites have also been established to administer initial, second and booster doses.