- Shabana Mir, Associate Professor of Anthropology at American Islamic College, gave a lecture titled “Everything has changed but we can’t: Muslim religious responses to Covid-19” at The Ali Vural AK Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. The lecture discusses the gendered dimensions of religious leader’s legal interpretive decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Four mosques in Singapore open additional entry and exit points as well as stagger timings for arrivals and departures of congregants, in a move to keep more worshippers safe from COVID-19.
- Ma’ruf Amin, the Vice President of Indonesia, discusses the flexibility of COVID-19 rulings at a conference titled “The Role of MUT’s Fatwa during the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Legal Impacts,” held by the Faculty of Law at the University of Al Azhar- Indonesia.