Zimbabwe: ZimRights Challenges Covid-19 Vaccine Roll Out Plan

10 February 2021

A local human rights group, ZimRights has challenged the government's proposed COVID-19 roll out plan saying it fails to meet constitutional demands needed to protect the right to life and death.

In a statement, ZimRights said yesterday's pronouncement by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa during a post-cabinet briefing that the Cabinet had approved guidelines for the COVID-19 vaccination programme, is unconstitutional as the guidelines are a far cry of what they demanded of government in fulfilment of its Constitutional obligations to protect the right to life and health of all citizens.

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