Health
Controversy around Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine in Australia, some clerics raise concerns – Hindustan Times
A senior Catholic archbishop had recently warned he is “deeply troubled” by Australia’s deal with AstraZeneca which is making a Covid-19 vaccine.
A controversial imam in Australia has asked Muslims not to get the vaccine for the coronavirus disease being developed by Oxford University. Sufyaan Khalifa claimed the vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca is ‘haram’ – meaning forbidden.
Khalifa has posted a video on his YouTube channel in which he blasted the methodology adopted by AstraZeneca, which said it is making the vaccine using foetal cells of an aborted baby in the 1970s and developed in a laboratory.
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