{"id":117203,"date":"2021-04-04T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117203"},"modified":"2021-04-04T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T07:28:45","slug":"zimbabwe-launches-commemorative-postage-stamps-on-covid-19-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117203","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe launches commemorative postage stamps on COVID-19 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Zimbabwe-launches-commemorative-postage-stamps-on-COVID-19-fight-1223536?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/976\/97690622.295.jpg\" alt=\"The stamps have depictions of COVID-19 prevention protocols\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The stamps have depictions of COVID-19 prevention protocols<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HARARE, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has unveiled commemorative postage stamps highlighting the country&#8217;s fight against the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3454\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0pandemic, state broadcaster ZBC reported.<br><br>&#8220;It is a commemorative stamp that will help preserve the history of the fight against the pandemic,&#8221; Chiwenga said.<br><br>Like any member of the global community, Zimbabwe has borne the brunt of the pandemic which had claimed 1,521 lives from 36,858 infections as of Tuesday.<br><br>To curb the spread of the pandemic, the country has so far vaccinated nearly 73,000 people with assistance from China and India. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stamps have depictions of COVID-19 prevention protocols HARARE, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has unveiled commemorative postage stamps highlighting the country&#8217;s fight against the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic, state broadcaster ZBC reported. &#8220;It is a commemorative stamp that will help preserve the history of the fight against the pandemic,&#8221; Chiwenga said. Like any member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}