The World Trade Organization reached a deal on patents for Covid-19 vaccines, after a deadlock of nearly two years since India and South Africa submitted a joint proposal to waive intellectual property rights of vaccines worldwide.
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Trade experts have welcomed a preliminary agreement by four influential World Trade Organization (WTO) members that would allow companies to produce and export Covid-19 vaccines without falling foul of patent laws. An internal WTO document leaked last week revealed that the EU, India, South Africa and US had agreed to let countries waive intellectual property .
A group of South African academics and the international NGO Doctors Without Borders have urged member countries in the World Trade Organization to resume negotiations after a leaked document detailing a compromise in waiving patents for Covid-19 vaccines surfaced.
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