Vaccine tourism: South Africans cross border to Zimbabwe for Covid-19 jab

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Zimbabwe is seeing a boost in vaccine tourism as foreign nationals have started arriving in the country to get vaccinated against Covid-19, for a fee.

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“Zimbabweans will get the vaccine for free, but for foreigners who come here, they will receive the vaccine at a cost. This is a human element, we cannot deny anybody the vaccine, but if you are not Zimbabwean we will give you the vaccine at a cost,” Mnangagwa said. Sinopharm and Sinovac’s vaccines account for the bulk of shots given in Zimbabwe, which has so far inoculated 478,174 people.

“The Covid-19 vaccine rollout is slow in SA, and my extended family in Cape Town needed to get vaccinated. We made a decision to bring them to Zimbabwe to get vaccinated. The private clinics in Zimbabwe are charging foreign nationals $70 for both jabs, we are happy to pay and it sounds reasonable,” said Evans.

 

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Sizintloni emazweni! DrZweliMkhize GovernmentZA

This will be the reality of Professional SAfricans in 2030, or so, if we can turn around our economy. They will be crossing the Limpopo to work in Zim. *I just know it*

Think? Lol... Been painfully obvious since day 1

And what does the science say re herd immunity target FOR ZIMBABWE? This sounds too populist Solwayo1 and not well thought through.😬

Yeah neh

We are showing you the way of bantu useless people who always think that South Africa is very special we need each other to make this continent better ok.

PutSouthAficansFirst twitter, where are you now? 😂 Must Zimbabweans still fall?

africaupdates What about the locals?

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Where the hell are the PutSouthAfricanFirst I think from this they can learn what Africanism mean. Calling themselves they are not Africans, vele? hlayi_b LvovoSA Naive xenophobes

zimlocals matinyarare Sophie_Mokoena Well done ZIMBABWE 👏👏👏. We need to do more to take back our place in the REGION

You are xenophobic 😎, who are the foreigners? Double standards!

Still don't understand why government isn't just selling the vaccine. 🤷‍♂️ Get if you can afford and wait if you cant. It is really that simple.

harumutasa WHERE ARE SOUTH AFRICAN FIRST TWITTER?!?! We just want to see something

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣where are the xenophobs

Trusting they have first prioritized their citizens before showing generosity non-citizens

PoliceZimbabwe will arrest you for inciting public violence, causing alarm and dispondency or disorderly conduct.

dionchang I admit. I didn’t see this one coming 😅.

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