{"id":24422,"date":"2022-01-10T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=24422"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:29:20","slug":"stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja","title":{"rendered":"Stop roadblocks on vaccination, says Nabbanja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Prime Minister, Ms Robinah Nabbanja, has directed that mounting roadblocks to impose Covid-19 vaccination should be removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMounting roadblocks to enforce vaccinations against Covid-19 is totally against well-established global practices. It must stop immediately. District health teams should devise other legal mechanisms to increase vaccination uptake,\u201d Ms Nabbanja said yesterday in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The disregard for the practice follows previous complaints made by unvaccinated passengers and motorists who said they were being forced to take the jab at designated roadblocks.<\/p>\n<p>A section of human rights activists and lawyers continue to reason that the exercise should not be forced as it oversteps one\u2019s freedom.<\/p>\n<p>What people say<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForcing someone to take a Covid-19 jab is violating their rights. Rather, people should be persuaded and encouraged to be vaccinated at their convenience,\u201d Mr Ivan Bwowe, a lawyer, told this publication yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Among those happy with Ms Nabbanja\u2019s new directive is Mr Simon Mbabazi . \u201cThe practice was an inconvenience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mbabazi yesterday said while traveling to Kasese, a town in Western Uganda, in December, he was stopped by security personnel who had placed barricades on the Mbarara-Kasese-Fort portal highway. Mr Mbabazi was then asked whether he had been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them yes but unfortunately forgot to carry the card,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI requested to be allowed to continue on with the journey but they refused,\u201d Mr Mbabazi added.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than argue with the security personnel, the businessman opted to abort the journey and return to Kampala City.<\/p>\n<p>Some people said the government\u2019s directive might not entirely be a great idea as it was helping to ensure that everyone gets vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the practice discarded now, there is looming worry that Covid-19 cases might increase, especially after the Ministry of Health confirmed on Saturday that the country was currently experiencing the third-wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The Prime Minister, Ms Robinah Nabbanja, has directed that mounting roadblocks to impose Covid-19 vaccination should be removed. \u201cMounting roadblocks to enforce vaccinations against Covid-19 is totally against well-established global practices. It must stop immediately. District health teams should devise other legal mechanisms to increase vaccination uptake,\u201d Ms Nabbanja said yesterday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-24422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stop roadblocks on vaccination, says Nabbanja - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Prime Minister, Ms Robinah Nabbanja, has directed that mounting roadblocks to impose Covid-19 vaccination should be ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stop roadblocks on vaccination, says Nabbanja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Prime Minister, Ms Robinah Nabbanja, has directed that mounting roadblocks to impose Covid-19 vaccination should be ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-10T13:55:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/01\/img-61dc2684c163c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1160\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"652\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Stop roadblocks on vaccination, says Nabbanja\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-10T13:55:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja\"},\"wordCount\":327,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/01\/img-61dc2684c163c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/stop-roadblocks-on-vaccination-says-nabbanja\",\"name\":\"Stop roadblocks on vaccination, says Nabbanja - 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