Actors Like Salman Khan Should Encourage Muslims To Get Vaccinated: Mumbai Mayor
Maharashtra government is in talks with religious leaders and celebrities to raise awareness on COVID-19 vaccination
Mumbai: In order to boost the vaccination drive amid the religious apprehensions among Muslims’ on the COVID-19 vaccine, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Wednesday hoped that celebrities like Salman Khan will help raise awareness among Muslims to get vaccinated.
“Whenever vaccination happened there were religious apprehensions in Muslims, which delayed it slightly. Hoping that Muslims will take jabs and actors like Salman Khan should encourage them,” said Mumbai Mayor on the issue of the Muslim community not in favour of getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
Earlier today, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope had said that the state government is in talks with religious leaders and celebrities like Salman Khan to raise awareness on COVID-19 vaccination.
While speaking to ANI, Tope said, “In order to get more people vaccinated, we will be getting religious leaders, celebrities to create awareness on vaccination. We are also in talks to bring onboard celebrities like Salman Khan for the awareness drive.”
As per the data of the Union Health Ministry, 10,41,16,963 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Maharashtra, wherein 6,98,15,228 people were administered the first dose of the vaccine.
India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 113.68 Crore (1,13,68,79,685) as per provisional reports till 7 am today.
On Tuesday, India recorded 10,351 new cases of Covid, pushing the case rate to the lowest in 274 days.
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