Uganda considers restrictions for unvaccinated people to public places
8The Uganda National Medical Stores (NMS), a government owned-owned organization, has announced that unvaccinated staff and visitors will no longer be allowed to access its offices.
NMS becomes one of the organizations in Uganda to start implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandatory to its staff and visitors to its offices.
The directive to bar unvaccinated staff takes immediate effect (Friday 15, October 2021), and for the visitors the ban will start on October 18. This implies that all NMS staff, who are over 350 in number, and visitors, who are usually bidders and suppliers of drugs and other pharmaceutical products, must present proof of vaccination to be admitted at the NMS head offices in Entebbe.
Those who are not fully vaccinated or fail to prove that they are fully vaccinated must present a negative COVID-19 PCR test result certificate issued within 72 hours. Sheila Nduhukire, the NMS Principal Public Relations Officer, says the move stems from a presidential directive that all eligible persons must be vaccinated before the economy can be reopened fully.
Nduhukire says that COVID-19 vaccines are available to the public and therefore the move should result in people embracing vaccination.
Uganda has so far received 5.6 million doses of various COVID-19 vaccines including AstraZeneca, Moderna, Sinovac, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson. But so far, only 600,000 people have been inoculated with the two recommended jabs and up to 2.3 million people have received only the first jab.
The directive triggered mixed feelings amongst staff of the National Medical Stores (NMS), with some welcoming it as the only way to guarantee safety from COVID-19.
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