Mosques are preparing for Ramadan after the holy month had to be observed during last year’s coronavirus restrictions without the usual community prayer gatherings. Thank you @AliRacaniere @SouthAsianHF et al for highlighting the issues related to vaccine rollout in Ramadan. We have created some resources which could help clinicians and patients decide about taking the vaccine and dealing with its side effects. Dr Waqar added: “We don’t want to exceptionalise Muslim communities for observing these religious or cultural practices. “Even when places of worship were open, Test and Trace didn’t attribute many cases of Covid transmission to those places.

Source: Irish Independent April 11, 2021 06:56 UTC