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 Summary 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. Advertisement 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.