Imams across Britain are helping a drive to dispel coronavirus disinformation, using Friday sermons and their influential standing within Muslim communities to argue that Covid-19 vaccines are safe. It highlighted that 72 per cent of Black survey respondents were unlikely or very unlikely to get the vaccine. When she received her vaccination, she posted a video in Urdu on social media aimed at the language’s speakers living in Britain. For Asim, the MINAB chairman whose mosque is in Leeds, in northern England, their efforts also help counter far-right claims. “If there was a lower take-up of vaccines in Muslim communities in comparison to all other communities, then potentially, it could fan the flames of Islamophobia,” he noted.

Source: Punch January 27, 2021 06:11 UTC