Ugandans would face fines, jail for refusing Covid-19 jab under new law

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Uganda plans to impose fines on people who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and those who fail to pay could be sent to prison under a new public health law which lawmakers are scrutinising.

Ugandan academic Stella Nyanzi looks at her glasses as police officers detain her for protesting against the way that government distributes the relief food and the lockdown situation to control the spread of the coronavirus disease outbreak in Kampala, Uganda on May 18, 2020.

Parliament's house health committee has begun scrutinising Public Health Bill 2021 which seeks to make coronavirus vaccinations mandatory.Coronavirus watch The parliament statement quoted health minister Jane Ruth Aceng as telling lawmakers on the committee that mandatory vaccinations would ensure enough people are vaccinated so that “we create mass immunity. It is important that whoever is supposed to be vaccinated, is vaccinated.”

Uganda fully reopened its economy last month after two years of anti-coronavirus measures that included curfews, businesses and school closures, the shutting of borders and other steps.

 

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