Uganda plans to impose fines on people who refuse COVID-19 vaccination and those who fail to pay could be sent to prison under an amendment of a public health law currently being reviewed in Parliament.
The new law proposes a fine of 4 million Ugandan shillings ($1,139) for those who fail to get vaccinated.
“According to the proposal, those who do not get vaccinated against COVID-19 will be fined 4 million shillings or [receive] a jail term of six months,” Parliament said in a statement on its website.
The Parliament statement on Tuesday (Feb. 22) did not say when the proposed law was likely to be brought before its members for approval.
