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President Biden, suspend intellectual property rights on Covid vaccines April 16, 2021, 1:57 PM IST
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A mixed group of more than a 100 prominent people, including former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, have reportedly written to the US President Joe Biden, asking for a suspension of intellectual property rights on Covid vaccines to help poorer countries cope with the pandemic.
A group of more than 170 former world leaders and Nobel laureates is calling on United States President Joe Biden to make COVID-19 vaccines more readily available by waiving US intellectual property rules.
In an open letter shared by Oxfam on Wednesday, the signatories also urged Biden to support a proposal spearheaded by South Africa and India demanding the World Trade Organization (WTO) temporarily waive COVID-19 vaccine patents.
The measure would allow vaccine manufacturing to ramp up globally, the letter reads, as public health experts have raised concerns that low-income countries are behind left behind without access to critical coronavirus jabs.
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President Joe Biden is being urged to suspend patents for coronavirus vaccines.
The move would allow developing countries to produce the vaccines on their own.
The request came in a letter signed by over 100 Nobel laureates and 75 former world leaders.
US pharmaceutical companies have developed the world s most effective vaccines for the coronavirus, helping Americans get inoculated faster than people in most other countries. Now President Joe Biden is being urged not just to share the vaccines with the less fortunate, but to share the knowledge that would allow developing nations to manufacture the vaccines themselves.
Make coronavirus vaccines patent-free, former world leaders urge Biden
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Dr. Michelle Chester draws the Covid-19 vaccine into a syringe at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, on December 14, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York.MARK LENNIHAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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The move would allow developing countries to produce the vaccines on their own.
The request came in a letter signed by over 100 Nobel laureates and 75 former world leaders.
US pharmaceutical companies have developed the world s most effective vaccines for the coronavirus, helping Americans get inoculated faster than people in most other countries. Now President Joe Biden is being urged not just to share the vaccines with the less fortunate, but to share the knowledge that would allow developing nations to manufacture the vaccines themselves.