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South Africa Ups The Ante On COVID-19 Vaccines IP Waiver

UK Is Under Pressure To Back The Proposal

 
• By Ian Schofield

With the COVID-19 situation spiraling out of control in India, Brazil and other parts of the world, calls for the suspension of IP protections on coronavirus vaccines are growing louder. But the R&D based pharmaceutical industry insists a waiver is not the way forward.

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South Africa wants more progress on making COVID-19 vaccines available • Source: Alamy

South Africa has urged world governments to intensify talks on the proposed intellectual property rights waiver for COVID-19 vaccines and medicines by moving on to a concrete text of the proposal rather than just holding theoretical discussions.

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