Call for Ireland to support making vaccine technology openly available Irish organisations’ open letter to Taoiseach says ‘united action’ needed on Covid-19
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 13:22 Updated: Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 13:25
There “simply is no way” to defeat Covid-19 in Ireland without “united action worldwide”, an open letter to the Taoiseach from a coalition of Irish organisations and charities has said.
The group is requesting Ireland’s support for proposals to allow Covid-19 vaccine technology to be shared openly through an emergency waiver at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The letter was co-ordinated by Oxfam Ireland and signed by Access to Medicine Ireland, ActionAid, Amnesty International Ireland, Comhlámh, Concern, Dóchas, Goal, the Irish Global Health Network, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Oxfam Ireland and Trócaire and references the Waiver from Certain Provisions of the TRIPS Agreem