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Officials call for mandatory taking of Covid-19 vaccines
Monday April 19 2021
Uganda received 864,000 Oxford- AstraZeneca doses of through Covax – the facility set up by World Health Organisation - last month. PHOTO/KELVIN ATUHAIRE
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European Court of Human Rights last week ruled that compulsory vaccinations would not contravene human rights law and may be necessary in democratic societies, according to a report by AFP last week.
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Government officials are pushing for compulsory Covid-19 vaccination of frontline workers to protect them from coronavirus-related death and quicken attainment of the goal of returning society to normalcy.
This comes at a time when the country is struggling with vaccine hesitancy, a situation being worsened by increasing cases of adverse reactions such as blood clotting and deaths in recipients of the jabs in several countries.
Daily Monitor
Thursday April 01 2021
At least 2,300 residents of Arua District have been vaccinated against yellow fever in the just concluded vaccination exercise by the National Medical Stores (NMS).
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At least 2,300 residents of Arua District have been vaccinated against yellow fever in the just concluded vaccination exercise by the National Medical Stores (NMS).
Dr Paul Bishop Drileba, the district health officer, called for the extension of the exercise due to the high turn up.
“We appreciate this gesture and our request to NMS is to increase the doses going forward. It is clear that the people appreciated this service. However, for NMS to fully vaccinate the people of Arua, we need like 10,000 doses, and the campaign should run for five days,” Dr Drileba said on Tuesday.