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Published: 15 Apr 2021 01:44 PM BdST
Updated: 15 Apr 2021 01:44 PM BdST FILE PHOTO: Former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, delivers a speech in central London, Britain May 21, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo
More than 60 former heads of state, including former leaders of Britain and France, and over 100 Nobel Prize winners called on US President Joe Biden to back a waiver of intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines. );
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A waiver would boost vaccine manufacturing and speed up the response to the pandemic in poorer countries which otherwise might have to wait years, they said in a joint letter to Biden sent to news organisations on Wednesday.
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Despite recent setbacks in Michigan and elsewhere, the United States is gradually approaching the day when we may be able to declare the COVID-19 pandemic under control within our borders, that is.
But that won’t mean the problem is over in the rest of the world or even here at home in the long run.
Until there is worldwide control of the virus, the pandemic will continue to affect our health, our economy and even our safety from terrorism.
The first reason is obvious: The coronavirus won’t sit still. As long as there are large pockets of people passing the virus, it will mutate, and those variants, potentially less responsive to our current vaccines, will travel here from Brazil, South Africa and anywhere else they appear.