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Prime minister urged to waive patents in bid to widen access to Covid vaccines Enabling manufacturers in poorer countries to make vaccines is a 'moral, epidemiological and economic imperative', campaigners say 10 March 2021 • 5:00am Employees at India's Serum Institute which has manufactured AstraZeneca jabs Credit: Punit Paranjpe/AFP A coalition of business people, economists, academics and trade unionists have written to the prime minister, asking him to back a proposal by 100 low and middle income countries to waive intellectual property rights on Covid vaccines.  The proposal, led by I...

The new vaccine divide - Global GoalsCast By Global GoalsCast March 5, 2021 / 2:40 PM / CBS News The fight to curb Covid-19 has created a new divide between those who have had the vaccine and those who have not. The United States, The United Kingdom and other well off countries are on their way to immunizing their entire adult population. Yet dozens of less wealthy countries have yet to receive their first dose. This inequity is both a moral challenge and a public health crisis. "You have coverage of a hundred percent in one rich country and then, in the following day,...

The domination of global medicine by major pharmaceutical companies needs to be confronted to provide fairer access to vaccines, a leading South African official has said. The scramble over Covid vaccines should alert rich countries to the power of profit-driven companies that control production of crucial medicines, said Mustaqeem De Gama, South Africa’s delegate at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on intellectual property rights. “While Rome...

Leaders of the Group of Seven economic powers have promised to immunize the world’s neediest people against the coronavirus by giving money and precious vaccine doses to a U.N.-backed vaccine distribution effort