AP ran a story in which it compared the vaccination programmes of Zimbabwe and Canada whose gross domestic product per capita was US$46 194.73 while that of Zimbabwe was US$1 463.99.
Only four African countries are better than Zimbabwe and these are Mauritius, Morocco, Tunisia, Sao Tome and Principe.
Seychelles has the highest vaccination rate in Africa and 70% of the population has been fully vaccinated but it has only 98 000 people.
Zimbabwe has a higher vaccination rate than its regional economic power houses, Botswana and South Africa. By last week 14% of the population had been vaccinated, that is, they had received at least one dose. Botswana was at 13% and South Africa 11%.
Zimbabwe is better than more than 60 other countries listed on the New York Times tracker.
The NY Times tracker is, however, behind as it has 2 071 101 doses when by yesterday Zimbabwe had dispensed 2 116 664.
Ironically, AP has its own fact check.
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