Photo for illustrative purposes only. A sign showing the way to a COVID-19 vaccination centre in West Ealing, London, UK, in February 2021. Willy Barton/Shutterstock

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Ramadan pop-ups at mosques target vaccine hesitancy among UK Muslims


For Dr. Jasmine Kapoor the weekend before Ramadan was one like no other.

On Saturday, April 10, the Health and Race Officer at the Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum (SMEF) in the UK, took her second COVID-19 vaccination shot. The next day, sore arm notwithstanding, she and her husband drove to nearby Dorking.

Their mission was to inoculate Muslim community members of the 17,000-strong market town that sits about 34 km south of London.

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