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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sarah Johnson

Harry and Meghan add voices to fierce critique of west’s Covid vaccine policies

Meghan Markle, Gordon Brown and Charlize Theron.
Meghan Markle, Gordon Brown and Charlize Theron. Their open letter condemns the developed world’s approach as ‘immoral, entirely self-defeating and also an ethical, economic and epidemiological failure’. Composite: Rex; AP

Prince Harry and Meghan, the actor Charlize Theron and the former British prime minister Gordon Brown are among 130 signatories to a letter lambasting wealthy countries’ approach to the Covid-19 pandemic, labelling it “immoral, entirely self-defeating and also an ethical, economic and epidemiological failure”.

In a strongly worded open letter published on Friday, the signatories warned “the pandemic is not over”, and said the failure to vaccinate the world was down to “self-defeating nationalism, pharmaceutical monopolies and inequality”.

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