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Prime minister urged to waive patents in bid to widen access to Covid vaccines Enabling manufacturers in poorer countries to make vaccines is a moral, epidemiological and economic imperative , campaigners say 10 March 2021 • 5:00am Employees at India s Serum Institute which has manufactured AstraZeneca jabs Credit: Punit Paranjpe/AFP A coalition of business people, economists, academics and trade unionists have written to the prime minister, asking him to back a proposal by 100 low and middle income countries to waive intellectual property rights on Covid vaccines.  The proposal, led by India and South Africa, is to be discussed at a World Trade Organization meeting on Thursday and Friday but has so far been blocked by richer countries including the UK, United States and the European Union.

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