Covid-19 Vaccine Will Not Break Ramadan Fast: Official

Doha: Taking a COVID-19 vaccine injection will not break a Muslim’s fast during Ramadan, senior official from the Ministry of Awqaf said.

In a post on Twitter Sheikh Dr Thaqil bin Sayer Al Shammari, Deputy Head of the Court of Cassation in the Supreme Judiciary Council and Head of Shariah Committee the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, said that the vaccine does not break fast because it is taken intramuscularly and it does not reach the stomach via a regular route.

“Based on this, the committee said that it is permissible to take the vaccine against the virus (Covid 19) during the day in Ramadan for a fasting person,” the post added.

“If the fasting person needs to take it during the day in Ramadan, this does not break his fast, because the injections are taken under the skin, intramuscularly,” the Head of the Fatwa Committee said.

Ramadan will begin mid-April as per the moon sighting and officials and scholars in many Arab countries have weighed in saying taking vaccine will not break the fast.