PM Jacinda Ardern among world leaders wanting equal access to COVID-19 vaccine, letter states

Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is among a group of world leaders calling for equal global access to a COVID-19 vaccine.

Ms Ardern’s name has appeared on a co-authored letter that was published in the Washington Post as an opinion piece.

The article states that coronavirus is still wreaking havoc across the world and the best way of ending the pandemic is through immunisation, “but only if all countries get access to the vaccine”.

Ms Ardern’s name appears alongside seven other world leaders – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, and Elyes Fakhfakh, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tunisia.