Talks on Covid-19 vaccine patent waiver at WTO could still take months
Ten WTO meetings in seven months have failed to produce a breakthrough, with 60 proposal sponsors from emerging economies
06 May 2021 - 14:12
US President Joe Biden threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines in a sharp US reversal, but it could take months for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to hammer out any deal.
Before Biden’s announcement on Wednesday, India and SA confirmed their intention to draft a new waiver proposal at a WTO General Council meeting, prompting the body's new director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to express hope for “a pragmatic solution”...
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