Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council aims to issue a ruling on whether a COVID-19 vaccine is halal or permissible under Islam before the country starts a mass inoculation campaign with a Chinese vaccine next week.
The world’s largest Muslim-majority country plans to launch the programme on January 13 after obtaining three million doses of the vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac. President Joko Widodo will be the first to receive a dose to boost public confidence in the vaccines
