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Bill Gates, Big Pharma and entrenching the vaccine apartheid – Mail and Guardian
Waiving intellectual property restrictions on Covid-19 vaccines could help the developing world. But India and South Africa’s pleas are falling on deaf ears
In October 2020, diplomats from South Africa and India approached the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with a revolutionary proposal.
Together, the two countries argued that countries should be allowed to ignore any patents related to Covid-19 vaccines, for the duration of the pandemic. In other words: everyone should be allowed to manufacture the vaccine, without penalty.
In their official communication, the countries said: As new diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines for Covid-19 are developed,…
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