No arrests have been made and police are still conducting
investigations on the case. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner
Paul Nyathi confirmed and said they suspect that the vaccination cards were
stolen yesterday.
“We are still conducting investigations and we will release
more details later concerning the case,” he said.
The latest development comes after a nurse at Zvishavane
District Hospital and her agent were arrested for issuing Covid-19 vaccination
cards to unvaccinated members of the public.
The two—Faith Varaidzo Taruvinga (29) of Izaya Park in
Zvishavane and Cloud Nyoni (29) are allegedly part of a web involving nurses at
the hospital taking advantage of members of the public who don’t want to be
vaccinated but want Covid-19 vaccination cards.
Police are still to find out the number of people who got
the Covid-19 vaccination cards from the web.
On Monday morning police received information to the effect
that nurses at Zvishavane District Hospital were issuing Covid-19 vaccination
cards and demanding between US$20 and US$30 for a card.
Police working with the information approached Nyoni who
was going around scouting for potential customers.
Two police officers approached Nyoni pretending to be in
need of Covid-19 vaccination cards and he told them that he wanted US$20 for a
single card.
The police officers managed to negotiate and they agreed on
US$15 for the two cards before they gave him their identity particulars which
were to be filled on the cards.
At around 2pm of the same day, Nyoni took the police
officers to a house in Izaya Park where they were introduced to Taruvinga, who
is employed as a nurse at Zvishavane District Hospital.
Taruvinga later handed over completed vaccination cards to
the detectives leading to the arrest of the suspects. Herald
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