What Chiwenga told Parliament about the coronavirus vaccine roll-out

Monitoring and Evaluation

Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Framework to guide planning and implementation – There will be pre vaccination demographic data collection.  Conduct Preparedness Assessment to assess readiness at all levels.  Development of data collection tools that is tally sheets, summary sheets and vaccination cards, all these will be required to be there.  Consolidation and reporting of the number reached will be done on a daily basis using existing platforms and structures.  Disease surveillance will include AEFI monitoring.  There will be blood collection to determine antibodies before and after vaccination.  Conduct of a Post Campaign Coverage Survey to validate administrative data and conduct a post introduction evaluation to assess the quality of the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine and help inform future introductions.

Tentative Timeline of Activities

We started training today and was supposed to have ended today but we will continue to monitor as from today whether other all the other stations have completed their training.  On procurement, the first batch of donations has arrived and the next procurements have already started.  We are making sure that before the end of this month we should have received the other batch of the vaccines.  Vaccine distribution started yesterday and we should go up to the 26th February.  Cold chain inventory is ongoing.  Advocacy, communication and mobilisation have already started and if you watch our electronic media, social media and in our newspapers, this programme is ongoing.  Monitoring and evaluation started and is ongoing programme.  We hope our first job of vaccination will start in two days Mr. Speaker Sir.  I want to thank you Mr. Speaker.   This is what I wanted to inform the House.  I thank you.

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