We have seen it all. From arguments against Covid-19 restrictions as unconstitutional and paternalistic to the global corruption that was associated with the distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE).
We have also heard prominent jurists and judges across many jurisdictions talking about the Covid-19 issues. Notable for me, as a legal scholar, is the rather unusual critique of the Covid-19 lockdowns by the US Supreme Court Justice Samuel A Alito Jr in a reported speech to a conservative legal group, drawing a rebuke from other judges. And Alito Jr might be compromising his opportunity to sit on the Bench when lockdown-related cases come to the Supreme Court.
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JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): A proposal by India, South Africa and eight other countries calls on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to exempt member countries from enforcing some patents and other Intellectual Property (IP) rights under the organisation s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, known as TRIPS, for a limited period of time.
The idea is to ensure that IP rights do not restrict the rapid scaling-up of manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.
While a few members have raised concerns about the proposal, a large proportion of the WTO membership supports the proposal.
It has also received the backing of various international organizations, multilateral agencies and global civil society.
In the US, many vaccines are set to expire even before being distributed.
More than 12 million doses of vaccines have been distributed so far in 33 countries, but none of those countries are in Africa.
South Africa, the most badly hit country on the African continent, has been unable to procure vaccine from Moderna. The country’s government says it was unable to persuade the company to submit its vaccine to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, the agency that approves vaccines.
While Moderna has refused to sell vaccines to South Africa, it has agreed to sell 40 million doses to Canada, 100 million doses to the United States and 160 million doses to the EU.
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the law was first enacted 130 years ago. On April 1, 2020,
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combination thereof, of an article (tangible object; movable
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