Reena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she’s been bombarded with false information.
“Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,” she said.
“For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow – and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us – it is disturbing.”
About 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They’ve said they’ll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.
“There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,” said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. “It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.”
Source: Covid: Fake news ‘causing UK South Asians to reject jab’ – BBC News


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