Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera and First Lady Monica Chakwera received their first Covid-19 vaccine yesterday, Thursday.

Malawi has established 861 vaccination sites across the country and during this first roll out 60,000 frontline medical workers are expected to receive the vaccine.

President Chakwera said no one should scare Malawians with lies about the vaccine and to encourage his fellow Malawians was quoted as saying, “The AstraZeneca Vaccine has been found by our scientists to be safe, effective and suitable. As a show of good faith, I and others have volunteered to be the first to be vaccinated, so that you can see that the vaccine is safe.”