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Protests are taking place at AstraZeneca sites to demand the pharmaceutical firm shares its Covid-19 vaccine technology.
The Global Justice Now group has been at sites in Cambridge and Macclesfield, with another protest in Oxford.
They are calling for the company to openly license its vaccine and commit to sharing the technology with the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The firm said it had produced the vaccine at cost and shared know-how .
Global Justice Now planned the action to coincide with the British-Swedish firm s annual general meeting.
Cambridgeshire Police said four people, aged 17, 20, 22 and 49, were arrested in relation to the protest at the AstraZeneca offices on Hills Road.
Protesters to descend on AstraZeneca s Macclesfield site in call for firm to share its Covid vaccine technology The UK is reaping the benefits of the highly effective vaccines that are now available, but people in low and middle-income countries are still dying daily by the thousands from Covid-19
10:11, 11 MAY 2021
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Protesters at AstraZeneca site in Macclesfield demand it shares jab technology
They are calling for the company to share its technology with poorer nations
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