AstraZeneca clarifies vaccine has no pork-derived ingredients over 'haram' claims

AstraZeneca on Sunday said its COVID-19 vaccine does not contain pork-derived ingredients. This comes after Indonesia's highest Muslim clerical council, the Indonesian Ulema Council, said that the vaccine is "haram" because the manufacturing process uses "trypsin from the pork pancreas", Reuters reported. However, the council approved the AstraZeneca vaccine for use given the pandemic emergency.