Imam Qari Asim told the PA news agency: “Misinformation can result in someone losing their life and it is one of the core principles of Islam that protection of life is extremely important.
“My message to Muslim communities is that it is our ethical obligation, moral duty, to take the vaccine whenever the opportunity arises.”
– MYTH: Vaccines make you infertile
FACT: Professor Lucy Chappell, a consultant obstetrician specialising in women with medical problems in pregnancy, says it is understandable that there have been questions about the new vaccines but said that fearful claims, which can be found online, have never been substantiated.
Covid 19 coronavirus: In UK, concern grows over vaccine hesitancy among minority groups
25 Jan, 2021 07:46 PM
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Brixton, London, in May. Health experts have called for collecting more data on the vaccine rollout across different ethnic backgrounds and to improve messaging. Photo / Andrew Testa, New York Times
New York Times
By: Isabella Kwai
There are increasing calls to prioritise people of colour, who have been harder hit by the coronavirus. But for some of them, a mistrust of the authorities has fed into anxieties about the shots safety.
Health experts, doctors and government officials in Britain are calling for a more concerted campaign to address vaccine hesitancy among minority groups, with some also urging that those groups be designated a priority for immunisation against the coronavirus because they are more at risk.
SAGE was responding to a shock new poll conducted by the UK Household Longitudinal Study which found that vaccine scepticism among BAME groups is high.
LONDON: The vaccines minister has said he is concerned the take-up of the jab may be lower in BAME communities.Nadhim Zahawi said he is working with local mayors and councils to get the message.