Navigate Global Pharma News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Patent Waiver the New Pandemic Normal & India’s Key Role in Emerging Global Consensus
News18
1 day ago
Oommen C Kurian
© Provided by News18
Patent Waiver the New Pandemic Normal & India’s Key Role in Emerging Global Consensus
Earlier this year, stark inequities of global vaccine distribution, where limited supplies of COVID vaccine doses are mopped up by richer countries had forced the WHO chief to warn that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure”. Lack of access to COVID-19 vaccines is now playing out across the world in terms of daily deaths spiralling out of control in relatively poorer countries, while vaccination efforts have resulted in significant reduction of deaths in the richer countries (Graph 1). The upper middle-income countries have also seen daily deaths plateau and start declining, albeit with a time lag, in tandem with global vaccine distribution statistics. There is dawning realisation tha ....

South Africa , United Kingdom , Olumiant Baricitinib , Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam , Eli Lilly , Oommenc Kurian , Indian Immunologicals Ltd , Senior Fellow Head Of Health Initiative , Bharat Immunologicals Biologicals Corporation , European Union , Technology Access Pool , Gates Foundation , World Trade Organisation , Serum Institute Of India , Haffkine Biopharmaceutical Corporation , Patent Waiver , New Pandemic Normal , Key Role , Emerging Global , Emerging Global Consensus , Compulsory Licenses , Navigate Global Pharma , Serum Institute , Timely Tech , Access Pool , With Indian ,