Giant vaccine maker Serum Institute of India Ltd., which was meant to provide many poorer nations with Covid-19 shots, said exports are unlikely to resume until year-end as it struggles to supply its overwhelmed home country.
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Senate Republicans are calling on top Biden administration officials to walk back support of an international plan to waive Covid-19 vaccine IP protections, calling the decision a âgiveawayâ to China and India that will only promote âvaccine nationalism.â
Countries like China that regularly steal U.S. intellectual property began urging the World Trade Organization to waive IP rights âalmost immediately after these vaccines were proven to work,â Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote in a letter today to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
âThese nations are falsely claiming that granting such a waiver would speed the development of new vaccine capacity. Nothing could be further from the truth,â they said in the letter, obtained by Bloomberg Law.
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In India, daily deaths reached a record, even as reported new infections declined from the highs of early May. Taiwan extended a soft lockdown island-wide, while the virus continued to rampage through Thailand’s prisons.
New cases in Malaysia rose to the highest since the pandemic began, even after the government imposed nationwide restrictions on movement to curb the spread. Serbia received a delivery of 440,000 vaccine doses from China to immunize its military.