Pedestrians walk on the High Street, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease , in Croydon, south London, Britain, September 27, 2020. — Reuters picLONDON, April 15 — As the afternoon call to prayer reverberated through the East London Mosque, local residents of all beliefs flocked in to put their faith in science and receive their Covid-19 vaccine.
Hasnayn Abbasi, a doctor in charge of the vaccination centre, said getting vaccinated was compatible with fasting during the Islamic holy month, which began this week. One study indicated that only 59 per cent of Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities had taken the vaccine by early February — well down on the figure for white Britons.
A Public Health England report last year found the risk of dying from Covid-19 among those of Bangladeshi ethnicity was twice that of white British people after accounting for sex, age, deprivation and region. And there are fears that pockets of hard-to-reach groups will remain vulnerable to Covid-19 and increase the risk of new variants emerging.
Why do the Musljms need to be treated with kids gloves and have special treatment ? Because they believe in an outdated religion and put others at risk because of their ignorance they should be prosecuted not treated as a special case.We need to vaccinate them for others sakes .
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