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However, progress made in the inoculation drive by countries such as the UK has caused ructions over equitable global access to the vaccine. Last week, US President Joe Biden surprised observers by calling for talks on a patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines and therapies. Having once favoured the concept, I think this would be a bad idea. At the outset of the pandemic last year, there was an argument for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to use its rules to signal an open market for vaccines. The move would have signalled the WTO’s relevance at a time when then US president Donald Trump’s...

US diverted pending orders to support India’s vaccine manufacturing: White House official In a Twitter thread, White House’s Covid supply coordinator explained how the DPA works. He said the law ‘doesn’t create shortages’. Nayanima Basu 26 April, 2021 10:07 pm IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: A day after US President Joe Biden said Washington is “determined” to help India to tackle the Covid-19 crisis, Tim Manning, the White House’s Covid-19 Supply Coordinator Monday said the US has diverted pending orders to support India...

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