A Zimbabwean airplane commissioned to transport the first batch of Chinese-donated Covid-19 vaccine doses is parked on tarmac at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, capital of China, February 14, 2021.
The 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine were donated by China.
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said Zimbabwe had a target to buy at least 1.3 million doses from China in the short term.
The second phase will see the vaccination of people with chronic illnesses, the elderly and prison populations.
Zimbabwe on Monday took delivery of its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from China with the vaccination of health workers set to begin immediately.
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who doubles up as Health and Child Care minister, received the donation that was brought by a chartered Air Zimbabwe flight at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in the early hours of the morning.
