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Oxfam reaction to announcement that G7 will work with industry to expand the production of affordable COVID-19 vaccines
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5 May 2021
Responding to the announcement today that G7 countries will work with industry to expand the production of affordable COVID-19 vaccines, Oxfam’s Health Policy Manager, Anna Marriott, said:
“The G7 has failed to take back control of COVID vaccines from the pharmaceutical corporations that continue to decide who lives and who dies. Relying on them to voluntarily share their vaccine recipes has so far denied access to these life-saving tools for billions of people.
“Instead the G7 should urgently put their support behind the waiver of intellectual property protections on COVID-19 vaccines that over 100 countries, led by India and South Africa, have been demanding for six months, and since which over two million people have lost their lives to coronavirus.