COVAX a good programme, but too little to meet Africa and Global South’s needs: Thabo Makgoba 28 April 2021, 3:08 PM | Mercedes Besent | @SABCNews
Image: ReutersMexico is struggling with behind-schedule local AstraZeneca production and shortfalls in deliveries from foreign suppliers and has asked the United States to help with more vaccines.
Makgoba insists that the pharmaceutical industry in Africa should start developing vaccines against COVID-19.
Some opposition parties say it is possible for the continent to develop its vaccines, but they express certain concerns.
The Anglican Archbishop first made the call on Good Friday saying it is possible for the pharmaceutical industry on the continent to start developing vaccines.
With millions of lives at stake amid a rapid spread of COVID-19, Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna said he hoped President Joe Biden would call the Pfizer CEO to let India produce its vaccine at least for six months or a year. Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley in the US House of Representatives, has been an ardent supporter of the move by India and South Africa at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver of COVID-19 vaccines. Allow India to develop that vaccine, and this is good in your own long-term interests. It s good for the United States and our interests with the role with India and the rest of the world, Khanna told the media.
Patents for COVID-19 vaccines slow global supply, raise risk of new variants, advocates say
India and South Africa are leading a proposal for the World Trade Organization to waive patents on COVID-19 vaccines temporarily, in order to boost production and fix a low supply problem for poorer countries.
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India and South Africa are leading a proposal for the World Trade Organization to waive patents on COVID-19 vaccines temporarily.(Matthias Schrader/The Associated Press)
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