Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are signing their names on an open letter which called out loosening COVID-19 policies across the world.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were among 130 world leaders who signed The People’s Vaccine open letter, which advocated for an end to “vaccine monopolies” on the two year anniversary of the pandemic being declared. Click inside to read more… “Two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic – and faced with disturbingly unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines – we urge world leaders to do what is necessary to end this crisis and unite behind a People’s Vaccine,” the letter begins.
The letter went on to call out the United Kingdom along with the European Union and Switzerland for “block[ing] the lifting of intellectual property rules which would enable the redistribution and scale-up of COVID-19 vaccines, test and treatment manufacturing in the global south.” “The current approach is immoral, entirely self-defeating and also an ethical, economic and epidemiological failure,” it read.
It continued, “Now we are reuniting, in greater numbers, and with utmost urgency repeating our call for a People’s Vaccine. We appeal to world leaders to end this strategy of counter-productive nationalism and of protecting pharmaceutical monopolies and to finally act with international solidarity.