‘Deploy experts for COVID awareness, not politicians’

RIGHTS groups yesterday urged government to make use of health professionals to disseminate information on COVID-19 instead of using politicians.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday, while announcing the new level four COVID-19 lockdown regulations, said ministers and MPs would be dispatched to their constituencies to lead information dissemination on vaccination.

But rights activists said sending politicians to disseminate information would not work as they were likely to politicise the process and start campaigning for the 2023 general elections.

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