According to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John Hopkins University, if 80 percent of a population is immune to a virus, four out of every five people who encounter someone with the disease won’t get sick. “In this way, the spread of infectious diseases is kept under control.
Depending how contagious an infection is, usually 50 percent to 90 percent of a population needs immunity to achieve herd immunity. ”
In his Ministerial Statement to the Senate on the same day, VP Chiwenga said distribution of the vaccine to all Zimbabwe’s ward would be complete by February 26 this year. “Training was started on 12th February for the provincial and districts.
We finished on the 16th of February.
On procurement, the first batch of donations received from the People’s Republic of China arrived on the 15th of February and it was collected. “We have already started the processing together with the Ministry of Finance for the next batches to come.
The next batch will be 600 000 and 1. 200 000. “We are hoping to be getting these vaccines every two or three weeks so that the programme which we have started continues and does not stop until all our people are vaccinated. ”
According to the schedule VP Chiwenga released in the Senate, Phase 1 of the programme is targeting 3 662 279 or 22 percent of the population. 🔗 Read Full Article
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