COVID-19: OVER 2,000 VACCINATED

By ZANIS:

The Ministry of Health will this week start distributing the Covid-19 vaccines to all provincial centres for the targeted priority population to access them.

In a press statement issued to ZANIS in Lusaka today, Minister of Health Jonas Chanda said the vaccines will be deployed to districts and administered to people identified as being at higher risk of contracting the Covid-19.

Dr. Chanda praised the general public for showing interest to get vaccinated and urged them not to panic but be calm as government is working round the clock to ensure that all eligible adults are vaccinated in line with the Covid-19 vaccination programme.

The minister has since assured Zambians that government and other stakeholders have embarked on an enhanced sensitisation campaign to ensure that frontline workers such as health workers, teachers, security forces and others access the vaccine.

Meanwhile, Dr. Chanda has warned of a third wave of the pandemic despite a drastic reduction in infections, hospitalisations and deaths in the country.

He disclosed that 798 people were vaccinated on Sunday, April 18 in Lusaka, bringing the cumulative number of people inoculated against Covid-19 to 2,114 since the vaccination programme was launched five days ago.

Dr. Chanda said no severe and adverse effects have been detected and reported from people who got the Covid-19 jab so far.

And Dr. Chanda said 24 new cases of the Covid-19 virus were detected in seven districts out of 2,676 tests conducted in the last24 hours.

This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases recorded to date to 90,942.

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