Twitter users slam Prince Harry and Meghan Markle over UK vaccine hoarding claims
dailystar.co.ukPrince Harry and Meghan Markle today accused the UK and 'rich' neighbours of pursuing 'self-defeating nationalism' to deny African and Asian countries the right to make their own Covid-19 vaccines. "What terrible timing.
They are not experts either but do like bashing the UK."Harry and Meghan joined numerous others in signing the letter, which said: "It is within our grasp to end it [the pandemic] and ensure everyone is protected. "That requires giving everyone, everywhere access to safe and effective vaccines and other life-savingCOVID-19 technologies.
This is possible, thanks to the incredible advances of science and the public investment of governments around the world"However, the cruel reality is that self-defeating nationalism, pharmaceutical monopolies and inequality stand in our way."We did not need to reach the milestones of two years and an estimated twenty million deaths from COVID-19.
This was avoidable."The letter put forward five proposals which would help to ensure the vaccine would reach its proposed target of 70% of the global population being vaccinated by mid-2022.Among them was a suspension of intellectual property rules relating to the covid vaccines to prevent pharmaceutical monopoly from preventing poorer countries from accessing the vaccine.But despite some backlash on Twitter, some users came to Harry and Meghan's defence, with out replying to Levin's tweet with: "They and experts in their letter imploring others to allow Covid vaccinations to be made safely and cheaply to curtail the virus in Asia and Africa.
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