‘Running dry’: Zimbabweans turned away for vaccinations after shortages

As staff sit idle in treatment centres, anger focuses on government failures to secure supplies as fears of a third wave increase

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Hundreds of people are being turned away from vaccination centres in Zimbabwe as the country's supplies of China's Sinovac vaccine appear to have run out, triggering panic that the government is failing to acquire new stocks.

While the government said that it had taken delivery of more medicines in recent weeks, centres in Harare have not had any stocks for nearly a week and there is growing anger at the failure to communicate acute vaccine shortages, which are being reported around the country.