- President of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband, Arshad Madani, among the leading Islamic scholars in India, stated that the COVID-19 vaccine is permissible under Islamic law.
- Raza Academy in India, an organization of Sufi Muslims, wrote to the World Health Organization, requesting information about the contents of the various vaccines against COVID-19.
- Indonesian clerics requested further details from a Chinese company rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to ascertain the vaccine’s contents and specifically, whether it contains porcine materials.