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Astrazeneca's CEO said: "The solution is to increase the yield in the existing plants, not to create more plants, because we have no engineers to brief people and train them."

Vaccine companies and the U.S. government snubbed WHO initiative to scale up global manufacturing Emily Baumgaertner © (Rafiq Maqbool / Associated Press) The Serum Institute in India has been responsible for manufacturing vaccines for much of the world. (Rafiq Maqbool / Associated Press) COVID-19 vaccines were still in the early stages of development last spring, but Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada was thinking ahead. Even if those efforts were successful, he fi...

Print COVID-19 vaccines were still in the early stages of development last spring, but Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada was thinking ahead. Even if those efforts were successful, he figured, wealthy nations alone wouldn’t be able to make enough vaccine to quickly inoculate billions of people. His solution: a program, launched by the World Health Organization last May that aimed to train dozens of pharmaceutical manufacturers in Latin America, Asia and Africa to increase worldwid...

Developing countries are dealing with a shortage of coronavirus vaccines, with the hoarding of supply and the protection of intellectual property in affluent nations two reasons why.

US Senators ask vaccine companies to share supply plans for India, world SECTIONS Share Synopsis They have suggested that the companies share their vaccine technology and manufacturing information with other companies to speed up production. AP If this proposal goes through, it would temporarily lift certain intellectual property barriers and allow countries to locally manufacture Covid-19 diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines, the senators said. Five US senators led by Elizabeth Warren have w...

Top US senators ask Pfizer, Moderna, J&J for global access to vaccines, including in India WASHINGTON, Apr 29: As India faces a catastrophic COVID-19 outbreak, five top Democratic senators wrote to Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, seeking global access to vaccines, including technology transfer. “COVID-19 has infected over 148 million people and killed over three million globally, with hundreds of thousands of new cases and thousands of deaths being reported daily,” the five senators...

Explainer: Why is India calling for IP rules around Covid vaccines to be waived? The World Trade Organization will meet again today to discuss the proposal. By Ian Curran Friday 30 Apr 2021, 6:30 AM 4 hours ago 13,637 Views 14 Comments A mess cremation of Covid-19 victims in New Delhi. Image: SIPA USA/PA Images A mess cremation of Covid-19 vi...

An amendment calling on the EU to back India and South Africa’s proposal to temporary lift intellectual property rights for the COVID-19 vaccine was rejected by the European Parliament on Thursday (29 April). The question of suspending IP rights for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines was first tabled by India and South Africa in a proposal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) which was backed by around 100 other countries. According to the proponents, an IP waiver for vaccine patents could s...

Urgent call to three rich Asian country governments – Japan, South Korea and Singapore to stop opposing TRIPS waiver at WTO 30.04.2021 - Asia - Countercurrents (Image by Stock File) The Peoples Vaccine Alliance (PVA) in Asia is calling on Japan, Singapore and South Korea to take action on the voices of citizens across Asia and the global South by sup...

More than 60 people protested outside Moderna’s headquarters in Cambridge on Wednesday to demand expanded global access to COVID-19 vaccines as the virus runs rampant in India, and Massachusetts’ two US senators expressed support for expanded international availability.