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No patent waiver, but here are the alternatives vaccine makers are offering for Covid shots

No patent waiver, but here are the alternatives vaccine makers are offering for Covid shots Proposal for intellectual property & and patent rights waiver was first introduced at WTO in 2020 by India and South Africa. It has been opposed by US and Europe. Kairvy Grewal 27 April, 2021 3:25 pm IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met last week and continued their resistance towards India and South Africa’s proposal to waive intellectual property (IP) and patent rights on Covid-19 vaccines.  Instead, vaccine makers have offered alternatives such as technology transfer and licences Serum Institute of India, for example, manufactures Covishield under a licence from AstraZeneca, which developed it with Oxford University researchers to boost the global immunisation effort.

German Army working around the clock to help India with its Covid crisis, says envoy Lindner

German Army working around the clock to help India with its Covid crisis, says envoy Lindner
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How pandemic fatigue led India to squander a chance to beat Covid while it was down

How pandemic fatigue led India to squander a chance to beat Covid while it was down Delayed action on shoring up vaccines, and India’s return to pre-pandemic normal with a vengeance have been seen as signs of fatigue as well as a level of complacence. Abantika Ghosh 18 April, 2021 10:04 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: On 13 April, 101 days after the first two Covid-19 vaccines were approved in India, the central government took a decision to waive the requirement of bridging trials in the country for vaccines approved in Europe, Japan, the US etc. What prompted its rigidity in December last year, when it refused to grant the same waiver to the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, is a mystery. Pfizer eventually withdrew its application and now wants its entry to be subject to certain conditions.

This CSIR sero survey could partly explain why India is in the grip of Covid wave again

This CSIR sero survey could partly explain why India is in the grip of Covid wave again CSIR conducted 2 follow-up sero surveys on people found to be seropositive in a nationwide survey last year. The one conducted after 6 months revealed an interesting finding. Mohana Basu 15 April, 2021 7:30 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: At least 20 per cent of people found to be seropositive in a survey last year lost their neutralising antibody levels in the subsequent six months, according to a nationwide survey by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). This, the researchers say, could partly explain why India is seeing a fresh surge in Covid-19 cases. 

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