Waive Covid-19 vaccine property rules, ex-world leaders urge US
- Date: 15-Apr-2021
- Source: The National
- Sector:Healthcare
- Country:Lebanon
Waive Covid-19 vaccine property rules, ex-world leaders urge US
Over 170 former national leaders and Nobel Prize winners have called on the US to waive intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines to give poorer countries faster access to inoculations.
A waiver would boost vaccine manufacturing and speed up the response to the pandemic in poorer countries which otherwise might have to wait years, they said in a joint letter to US President Joe Biden that was sent to news organisations late on Wednesday.
The group said it was "gravely concerned by the very slow progress" in scaling up global vaccine access and inoculation in low- and middle-income countries.
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