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Muslim leaders warn - get the vaccine or risk losing Ramadan next year Date published: 19 April 2021
Imam Qari Asim, Chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board
Muslims who miss vaccination appointments risk ignoring the knowledge of senior clerics and spending Ramadan 2022 away from their families.
That is the view of Muzahid Khan, one of the regional consultants at the Strengthening Faith Institutions programme, who believes that the Holy Month should be a reason to get inoculated.
Mr Khan remains alarmed at figures showing that people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage have the second lowest uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, even though local pop-up vaccination centres have been a huge success in places with high concentration of these communities.
Muslim institutions in the UK struggle to survive a disproportionate death toll and lockdown-induced financial troubles
A member of mosque staff prays in the otherwise empty Noor Ul Islam Mosque on the day before Ramadan commences in the UK, in Bury, Greater Manchester (AFP) By Published date: 7 March 2021 14:36 UTC | Last update: 1 week 6 days ago
On the first day of lockdown there was a strong sense of deja vu at the Al-Manaar Mosque in west London. The team was strongly reminded of when the mosque s doors were flung open in 2017 to the survivors of the nearby Grenfell Tower fire disaster. Overnight, its elegant halls were transformed into an emergency support centre.
Community champions paid to persuade the BAME population to get the jab
Statistically, people from BAME communities are among the most likely to die from coronavirus, though the exact reason remains unclear
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Minister for Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, receiving her first vaccination as part of the Novavax Phase 3 trial, in October 2020. Thousands more people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds were needed to volunteer in the vaccine trials during the second half of last year
Credit: PA
Community vaccine champions will be paid to persuade people to get the coronavirus vaccination, amid growing concern about resistance among parts of the black and minority ethnic (BAME) population.