Only Members of Parliament who have been vaccinated against the corona virus shall be allowed to attend parliament sessions next week.
The revelation was made by Chris Obore, the Parliament Director of Communications and Public Affairs, who noted that parliament plans to abandon using tents and resume sittings in the Chamber that has a capacity of only 100 Members of Parliament.
Currently, legislators are on a working recess to assess the impact of the Emyooga program in their constituencies.
Now, Obore says that when the sessions resume, only fully vaccinated MPs with certificates will be allowed access to avoid Covid-19 infections.
He added that they will resume using the Chamber because the house does not want to keep spending money on tents. All members will have to be vaccinated to attend sittings to avoid infections.
Obore also argues that parliament is considering discussing with different political party whips in Parliament so that their members attend plenary sittings in shifts due to the limited space in the Chamber and to also ensure social distancing. The Chamber is too small to accommodate all Eleventh Parliament has a total of 529 MPs and these cannot all be accommodated in the Chamber at once.
The Strangers Gallery will also be used by the MPs and no members of the public will be allowed inside Parliament to follow proceedings.
Members of Parliament were among the first categories who were considered to receive Covid-19 vaccines. The parliamentary staff and journalists reporting from the Parliament have since been receiving the vaccination.
