NFC permission required: Neither user 10711 nor current process has android.permission.NFC

Question

I'm developing an android application with vue/capacitor/ionic where the user can scan NFC tags.

I'm receiving this error and cannot find anything to solve it:

NFC permission required: Neither user 10711 nor current process has android.permission.NFC.

I have already added <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.NFC" /> to my AndroidManifest.xml. To my knowledge this should allow permission but it doesn't..?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Further code if necessary:

<script setup>
import 'normalize.css';
import router from '../router';

import { Nfc, NfcUtils, NfcTagTechType } from '@capawesome-team/capacitor-nfc';
import { Capacitor } from '@capacitor/core';

const read = async () => {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    Nfc.addListener('nfcTagScanned', async (event) => {
      await Nfc.stopScanSession();
      resolve(event.nfcTag);
    });

    Nfc.startScanSession();
  });
};
</script>