Zimbabwe: 11,8m Doses of Vaccine Received

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Zimbabwe: 11,8m Doses of Vaccine Received

[The Herald] Cabinet received an update on the country's response to the Covid-19 outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development, as deputy chairperson of the Ad-hoc Inter-Ministerial Task Force on Covid-19.

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