Evening vaccine clinic assists Muslim community during Ramadan
VACCINE Some worried receiving a vaccine during the fasting period is considered breaking fast. Sentara was happy to bring the doses to them during the evening, instead. HAMPTON, Va. […]
Vaccines and Fasting – What is the True Islamic Perspective?
Dr Shahzaib Ahmad – London UK, Sarmad NaveedFACTS FROM FICTION 15th April 2021 Sarmad Naveed, Canada & Dr. Shahzaib Ahmad, UK Fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the […]
Vaccination not required to perform Umrah in Ramadan
Source: Arab News On Twitter, the ministry’s customer service center account said that inoculations are not a requirement yet to get permission for Umrah during Ramadan. Workers in sectors providing […]
Covid-19 vaccine: How the poor in the Middle East are being left behind
Health experts say vaccine rollout is inhibited by longstanding inequality, stunting progress worldwide The WHO estimates only 20 percent of the entire EMRO region, extending from Morocco to Afghanistan, will be vaccinated by the end of 2021 (AFP/Illustration Mohamad Elaasar)By Azad Essa in New York CityPublished date: 10 March 2021 10:43 UTC | Last update: 2 weeks 1 […]
Britain holds minute’s silence for coronavirus dead
Health workers and faithful at the Fazl mosque vaccination centre take part in a minutes silence on the first anniversary of the first national Covid-19 lockdown in southwest London on […]
Indonesia Starts Covid-19 Vaccination for Religious Leaders
Health worker injects a COVID-19 vaccine into a monk during the first phase of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccine campaign for religious leaders at Istiqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta on Feb […]
WHO advises against mandating COVID-19 vaccine to travel
09 Mar 2021 GENEVA: A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official on Monday (Mar 8) said that so-called “vaccine passports” for COVID-19 should not be used for international travel because […]
Lobby rages over SNL joke about Israel’s vaccine racism
Ali Abunimah Lobby Watch 22 February 2021 On Sunday I appeared on Katie Halper’s YouTube show to talk about how Israel lobbyists are in an uproar over a joke on Saturday Night Live. The joke bitingly called attention to how Israel’s apartheid government is denying millions of Palestinians vaccines and […]
UK government plans night-time Ramadan vaccine drive
Abida Bi receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from nurse Zenub Mahood, at Bradford Central Mosque in Bradford, Britain, February 25, 2021. (Reuters) Campaigner tells Arab News he welcomes “proactive” […]
Vaccine solidarity now
Feb 24,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – Jose Manuel Barroso GENEVA — The arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020 brought fresh hope that the end of the pandemic […]
Vaccine Nationalism and the Need for Absolute Justice
CONTEMPORARY AND SOCIAL ISSUES • HEALTH 18th February 2021 Sinwan Basharat, Canada – Deputy Editor Science Section In early December last year, a 90-year-old British grandmother, Margret Keenan, became the […]
Vaccine-poor Germans shunning AstraZeneca jab
By AFP – Feb 19,2021 – JORDAN TIMES A shut cafe in Munich, Germany. Countries are relying on vaccines to tame the pandemic, but some Germans have shunned the AstraZeneca […]
Corona Vaccine: The West’s Greed Could Come Back To Haunt It
A global initiative was launched to ensure that poorer countries would also have fair access to vaccines for the coronavirus once they were developed. Instead, the West is panic-buying the […]
Reflections on a plague year
Feb 14,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – Jim O’Neill LONDON — It is probably premature to offer an assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic’s possible consequences, not least because there may well […]
When will life return to normal? In 7 years at current Covid-19 vaccination rates
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – When will the pandemic end? It’s the question hanging over just about everything since Covid-19 took over the world last year. The answer can be measured […]
Will Pakistan get Covid vaccines from India?
Soutik Biswas India correspondent Pakistan has recorded more than 530,000 Covid infections so far Next week, Pakistan plans to launch its immunisation programme against Covid, starting with health workers getting jabs of free doses of a China-made vaccine. Next door, arch-rival India began one of the world’s biggest inoculation drives […]
Israel no role model for COVID-19 vaccination rollout
Author RAY HANANIA January 27, 2021 A man receives a vaccination at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on New Year’s Eve. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/z7zjh Israel is being celebrated […]
Israel refuses to take responsibility for West Bankers, Gazans suffering COVID infections, deaths
Jan 20,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Despite appeals from the UN and human rights organisations, Israel continues to dismiss calls to vaccinate against COVID or provide vaccines to Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel has so far inoculated 2 million Israelis, including members […]
Don’t fall for COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies, warns Muslim scholar
A protester holds up a placard at a demonstration in London in October against mandatory vaccinations. A leading Muslim scholar in Canada warned people not to believe conspiracy theories about […]
“To See People Finally Benefitting from Our Work Is Really Moving”
BioNTech Founders Türeci and Şahin on the Battle against COVID-19 In a DER SPIEGEL interview, BioNTech founders Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin discuss the development of the world’s first COVID-19 […]
