Parallel COVID-19 vaccines will be available in Malaysia to counter halal uncertainty
KUALA LUMPUR - While little is known yet about the halal status of all the official coronavirus vaccines Malaysia will distribute this year, other vaccines that will be certified halal are still expected to be available.
These parallel vaccines will be ordered by physicians at the request of their patients. The public may ask for these drugs for various reasons, including beating the queue for vaccination and doubts over the safety—or halal-ness—of government-supplied drugs.
Joseph Moscato, chief executive of Generex, a Florida-based biotechnology firm, says his parallel vaccine will “easily” get halal approval because “it is completely synthetic; there are no parts of [the vaccine payload] that could be in doubt”.
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