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Last week the US government, after eight months and after at least three million people have died globally from Covid-19-related complications, including the inability to breathe, indicated that it would no longer block the proposal of the South African and Indian governments to temporarily waive certain provisions of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic. The waiver proposal was first submitted in October 2020 to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
We, with other groups around the world, welcomed the announcement by the US Trade Representative Katherine Tai that the US government supports the “waiving of intellectual property (IP) protections for Covid-19 vaccines”. The crux of the proposal submitted by South Africa and India is that the waiver is targeted to Covid-19 medical technologies and products and covers vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics as well as items such as personal protective gear
Afia s Samosa shop - story of how Birmingham woman launched UK s first-of-a-kind samosas
The strain of the pandemic has nearly forced this store out of business but with nothing but hard work it continues to sell pioneering samosas across the country
Somosa s available at Afia s Samosa shop (Image: Afia s Samosa shop)
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