Dr. Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad, the Grand Mufti, Director of the Ifta Department at the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai (IACAD) confirmed that the Muslim who is taking the Covid-19 vaccine does not affect his fasting during Ramadan. This is because it is taken intramuscularly like all other intramuscular injections, explaining that it does not break the fast except that which enters the stomach through the open passages such as the mouth, the nose, etc.
Al-Haddad added, in response to the “Alroeya newspaper” questions: The Covid-19 swabs that are taken from the nose or through blood drops do not break the fast, because the nasal swab does not contain any substance that enters the body. It is a sample taken to be examined from the outside, and it does not break the fast according to the majority of scholars, unlike the Hanbali.
The grand mufti indicated that a Muslim who feels symptoms of fatigue as a result of Corona disease or after taking the vaccine, which prompts him to vomit or take painkillers, unintentional vomiting does not break the fast. If he does not take any of the medicines that break the fast, then his fast is valid, and if he takes painkillers he has broken his fast, and there is no blame for him to break his fast if he is tired and needs to break the fast, then he has to make up later.
He pointed out that the concerned authorities have provided alternatives options to fulfill the desire of the people who are willing to help who in need through the authorized bodies of associations and institutions concerned with safe distribution.