Biden says he plans to back WTO waiver for vaccines
The Hindu
Earlier, the WTO’s General Council was taking up a temporary waiver for intellectual property protections that South Africa and India first proposed in October
President Joe Biden said onWednesday he plans to back a forvaccine intellectual property and would talk about it later inthe day. "Yes, I'm going to talk about that later today, yes," Bidentold reporters in reply to a question about whether he intendedto back the waiver after he gave a speech regarding his proposed"American Rescue Plan." The United States and several other countries have thus farblocked negotiations at the World Trade Organization about aproposal led by India and South Africa that would waive the IPrights of pharmaceutical companies to allow developing countriesto produce COVID-19 vaccines.More Related News