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Thupeyo Muleya -Beitbridge Bureau

Government has intensified the Covd-19 education and awareness campaigns across the country to promote the mass vaccination programme in high-risk areas including border towns.

The chief director in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Dr Maxwell Hove said they had teams nationwide which were unpacking the mysteries around the vaccines.

He said some were static while others were mobile and that more Information Education Communication (IEC) material containing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and answers about the pandemic and Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) had been printed.

Dr Hove said information was being disseminated in all the country’s 16 official languages so that the majority of citizens are enlightened.

The official said in Beitbridge they were targeting to vaccinate at least 26 000 adults aged between 18 and 80 years.

He said residents in the town were vulnerable to new infections considering that most of them survive on cross-border linked activities.

A total of seven million people use the Beitbridge border post to cross into either Zimbabwe or South Africa.