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Will US lift vaccine patents? As India’s explosive outbreak spills beyond its borders, the West and its drug companies are under growing pressure to waive intellectual property rights to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments so more countries can start making them. On Sunday, the US acknowledged those calls, with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain telling CBS News that US Trade Representative Katherine Tai would hold talks with the World Trade Organization “on how we can get this vaccine more widely distributed, more widely licensed, more widely shared.” This comes as India’s devastating...

Will US lift vaccine patents? -- Coronavirus Fact vs. Fiction CNN 2 hrs ago © Reuters CDC releases illustration of the Coronavirus. As India's explosive outbreak spills beyond its borders, the West and its drug companies are under growing pressure to waive intellectual property rights to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments so more countries can start making them. On Sunday, the US acknowledged those calls, with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain telling CBS News that US Trade Representative Katherine Tai would hold talks with the World Trade Organization "on how we can get this vaccine m...

Posted : 2021-05-03 15:39 Updated : 2021-05-03 15:39 People attend a test music festival as part of a national research program assessing the risk of COVID-19 transmission in Liverpool, Britain, May 2. Reuters-Yonhap Live music returned to the birthplace of The Beatles after a long coronavirus-enforced silence on Sunday when the English city of Liverpool hosted a one-off music festival to test whether such events spread the virus. Around 5,000 people ditched face coverings and social distancing rules in the name of science and music. They attended the outdoor event having tested negative fo...

Eight people die in an Indian hospital after medical oxygen runs out From Manveena Suri and Esha Mitra in New Delhi Eight people, including one doctor, died at a hospital in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Saturday afternoon after the facility ran out of medical oxygen.  Speaking to CNN, Dr. SCL Gupta, the medical director of Batra Hospital, said staff had been messaging government authorities, warning them the hospital only had four to five hours of oxygen left. At around 1:30 p.m. local time, with minutes left, they were running on oxygen brought in by the families of patients while em...

India receives 150,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine From Manveena Suri in New Delhi and Mitch McCluskey in Atlanta India has received 150,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine as the country grapples with a brutal second wave of the pandemic, the government said Saturday. Arindam Bagchi, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson, said the doses, delivered to Hyderabad, would be the first of millions to be sent to India. “Deeply value support from long-standing friend Russia. Over a decade of India-Russia special & privileged strategic partnership,” Bagchi said in the tweet...