Greenpeace India on Monday urged the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to waive intellectual property and patent rights on Covid vaccines, saying equity and access gaps in inoculation rates of rich and poor countries is costing lives.
Explained | What the easing of IP norms on Covid vaccines means for India
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May 06, 2021 19:43 IST
The challenge moves to the next level and needs to navigate fineprint consensus building through bureaucratic layers of WTO and member countries’ national governments.
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On May 5, U.S. President Joe Biden had announced that he will support an initiative at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to waive Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) protection for COVID-19 vaccines. | Photo Credit:
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The challenge moves to the next level and needs to navigate fineprint consensus building through bureaucratic layers of WTO and member countries’ national governments.
by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 - 11:20 PM
A few weeks ago, when President Biden held his first press conference since taking office, he promised that 200 million adults will have received at least one vaccine jab by the time his first 100 days have finished - a doubling of his initial target of 100M. Yet, in close to 130 countries, representing a population of 2.5 billion people, not a single adult has received a dose.
The reasons why can be traced back to one man: Bill Gates. Gates has been warning about the dangers of a pandemic for years - since long before COVID first emerged in Wuhan. And when the pandemic struck and talk first turned to vaccine, one issue that was notably left out of the discussion was who deserved the proper credit, and the proper payment. As the New Republic reports in its latest piece in a series attacking the Bill Gates myth that he and the Gates Foundation are the world s capitalist saviors - ready and eager to save poorer nations from the pand