Sinopharm shipment delivered to Harare
Zimbabwe has received its first batch of 200 000 doses of Sinopharm donated by the Chinese government in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Zimbabwe received its first delivery of 200 000 doses of Sinopharm yesterday at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in the capital city Harare.
The Chinese coronavirus vaccine was donated by the
East Asian nation’s government while another batch of 600 000 doses purchased by Zimbabwe is expected to arrive early next month.
This shipment from China comes after prior vaccine dose deliveries to Egypt and Equatorial Guinea.
Vaccination campaign Vaccination priority will be given to frontline workers such as health professionals and
immigration agents working at borders, according to the rollout plan in Zimbabwe — which has as of Sunday, reported 35 104 Covid-19 cases and almost 1 398 deaths.
Many more doses beyond this first batch of 200 000 will be necessary to achieve herd immunity in Zimbabwe as 60% of its population, 10 million people would need to vaccinated.
Cameroon made a winning start to their Africa U-20 Cup of Nations when beating the hosts Mauritania 1-0 in an entertaining encounter at the Olympic Stadium in Nouakchott on Sunday night.
Junior Sunday Jang scored the all-important goal for the young lions of Cameroon who are making their tenth appearance at the biennial tournament.
Coach Ousmanou Bonaventure’s side had to dig deep to secure the points against the junior Mourabitounes who were making their debut in the tournament. The dominated most parts of the match but failed to make it count against lions who were happy to defend in numbers and protect their goal.
Mauritania showed intent from the first whistle with Silly Sangareh the architect of their moves down the left channel.
The tricky winger had the first sniff at goal after 11 minutes, regaining possession just inside the Cameroon half, skipping away from a couple of challenges before his effort was blocked. The Lions upped the ante midway through the first half with Alioum Moubarak causing mayhem on the right flank with speed.
Buoyed by the classy opening ceremony the hosts came close twice through Oumar Mbareck and Adama Diop but either troubled the keeper.
Oumar who wore the famous number 10 found space on the right cutting inside but his left footed effort failed to hit the target. Diop combined with Youssef War in a swift counter attack which exposed the Cameroon defence but the Lions recovered to clear their from Youssef ’s cut back.
Cameroon started the second half with more purpose and came close to breaking the deadlock just after restart. Alioum Moubarak’s cross from the right was just about gathered by Mohamed in the Mauritania goal while Sunday Junior was lucking behind.
The two sides continued to cancel each other in the middle of the whiles trying to break on the counter attack.
Silly Sangare beat two Cameroonian defenders on the left channel after the hour mark; his delightful cross into the area was hastily dealt by Cameroon’s captain Meyapya Fongain who marshalled the defence.
Sunday Junior settled the match nine minutes from when he latched on to Abou Diallo’s weak back pass, running the onrushing keeper before poking the ball into an unguarded goal to hand Cameroon the best possible start to the tournament.
The Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) is still hard at work sourcing for a principle sponsor for the country’s Premier Rugby League, which has been without a headline sponsor for more than eight years now.
NRU interim CEO Theo Grunewald yesterday told New Era Sports that the union’s leadership has been hard at work, talking to various corporates with hope of securing a headline sponsor for the country rugby premiership.
With the local rugby league activities set to fully return in April, the NRU is hoping to secure a sponsor before activities get rolling countrywide.
“We are still working on securing sponsorship for the premier league, although it’s a bit challenging to get a sponsor at this point in time and Covid-19 has also made it worse for everyone. We are also waiting on the government to hopefully relax some measures with regards to Covid-19, as that will also help boost our chances of getting a sponsor. At the moment, we are not sure when contact sports will fully return to action and have spectators at the stadiums – so until we have the answers all those questions, approaching a potential sponsor will remain challenging, as we have nothing to put on the table,” he said. Asked as to how many teams the premier league will accommodate this year, Grunewald said it is yet to be decided upon but a final decision will, however, be made at the NRU’s upcoming annnual general meeting set to be held on 27 March.