VP Chiwenga: Vaccine Certificate will soon be a pre-requisite for travelling and getting jobs
The Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga said that the government could soon be left with no choice but to make the COVID-19 vaccination certificate a prerequisite for public services if citizens continue shunning the inoculation exercise.
Speaking during an interview the Vice President said the move would be made to encourage vaccination and achieve the targeted 60 percent herd immunity.
“Remember the COVID-19 certificates eventually they are going to become our passports. If you watch the news you will see that there are deliberations in all capitals on vaccination passports and this is being considered globally.”
“You will not be forced to be vaccinated. However, there will come a time when you are not vaccinated you will not be able to get a job, if you are not vaccinated you will not be able to board a ZUPCO bus. Eventually you will have to decide for yourself,” he said.
VP Chiwenga: Vaccine Certificate will soon be a pre-requisite for travelling and getting jobs
During the same interview VP Chiwenga also mentioned that he deeply misses his military allies who succumbed to COVID-19. He goes on to narrate how he received the sad news of the death of his friends.
“They give me courage. The fortunate or unfortunate part is that I had spoken to all of them prior to their deaths. With (Retired) Air Marshal Shiri, we had talked for almost an hour and we ended up talking about our days at school, late into the night. In the early hours of the morning I received the shattering news that he was no more. He was the last person I had spoken to that day.”
“It gives us the courage that everybody has his or her own time. I did not expect to lose such great friends to this pandemic. We grieve, but we understand that this happened and we ask God to give us strength to accept reality. This is the reality and I cannot change it,” he added.