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    Science has delivered, but will the WTO?

    Jan 06, 2021 4 minutes
    BRAJENDRA NAVNIT

    A PROPOSAL by India, South Africa and eight other countries calls on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to exempt member countries from enforcing some patents, and other intellectual property rights (IPRs) under the organisation’s agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, known as Trips, for a limited period. It is to ensure that IPRs do not restrict the rapid scaling up of manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.

    While a few members have raised concerns about the proposal, a large proportion of the WTO membership supports the proposal. It has also received the backing of various international organisations, multilateral agencies and global

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