As yet another surge of Covid-19 infections seriously threatens to push back normalisation of the global economy and society further, it is imperative that governments work in a coordinated manner to alleviate its impact. Ensuring that Covidrelated vaccines and other medical products are freely accessible at affordable prices to the citizens of every country should be on the top of their agenda, for this is the only way that the spread of the contagion can be stymied. Reflecting the need of the times, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said, “A global pandemic requires a world effort to end it—none of us will be safe until everyone is safe.”
However, a heady mix of avarice of large pharmaceutical companies (the “Big Pharma”) even in the midst of this deadly pandemic, together with “vaccine nationalism” in the developed world, is preventing the rapid rollout of vaccines in most of the developing world. As early as in October 2020, India and South Africa had anticipated the emergence of such a situation and tabled a proposal in the World Trade Organization (WTO) seeking a temporary waiver from the members’ obligations to implement, apply and enforce four forms of intellectual property rights (IPRs), namely, patents, copyrights, industrial designs and trade secrets, for the prevention, containment or treatment of Covid-19.
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