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Almost there! Check your email inbox to finalise email verification. You'll then be asked to choose a password so you can log in to The Spinoff. January 29, 2021 Jacinda Ardern visit a lab at Auckland University. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images) ‘We call on you to uphold NZ’s reputation’: An open letter to Jacinda Ardern on a People’s Vaccine An open letter to prime minister Jacinda Ardern, minister of foreign affairs Nanaia Mahuta and trade minister Damien O’Connor on supporting a People’s Vaccine Dear Prime Minister Ardern and Ministers Mahuta and O’Connor, ...

Friday, 29 January 2021, 10:09 am 42 different groups and noted experts, including Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand, NZ Council of Trade Unions, the New Zealand Public Service Association, Greenpeace Aotearoa and Médecins Sans Frontières New Zealand have signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to support a "people’s vaccine" by supporting a waiver to WTO intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines. "The present WTO rules on intellectual property will allow those who control the Covid vaccines’ patents to control the global supply of vaccine doses. On our...