Harry and Meghan call for vaccine equity in New York speech

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spoke about vaccine equity (Paul Edwards/The Sun/PA)

The Duke of Sussex has called on pharmaceutical companies to waive their intellectual property rights on Covid vaccines as he said the pandemic was becoming a “human rights crisis”.

Harry and Meghan took to the stage in New York as part of Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour event calling on leaders to to adopt a vaccine equity policy.