WTO summer holiday from vaccine-equity talks draws calls for action
WTO summer holiday from vaccine-equ.
An urgent global effort to rebalance the inequity between rich, vaccinated nations and poor nations sliding further into pandemic misery is colliding with an immovable calendar conflict: the European summer holiday.
Next week World Trade Organization delegates are planning to depart Geneva for their August break and, in doing so, pause their fractious debate over a proposal to waive intellectual-property protections for covid-19 shots until the second week of September.
Before they leave, members will adopt a report that acknowledges they ve made scant headway on the proposal aimed at making doses more widely available, which the world s top health expert says is critical to ending a moral failure.
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