, since it seeks to adjust terms of the agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights , the proposal is backed by more than 100 mostly developing countries.
Although other factors affect global supply, if this waiver was accepted it would untie the hands of producers everywhere, allowing them to contribute to efforts to massively scale up manufacturing of desperately needed tests, treatments and vaccines worldwide. If the TRIPS waiver had been adopted last October when it was first proposed, it could already be giving low and middle-income countries like India the ability to expand the production of life-saving medical products.
What absolute garbage ABC. Australia does not own the intellectual property for covid vaccines. This belongs to overseas companies. Someone should be sacked over this story.
Not Australia’s problem! But we will help!
The issue is really an IP rights waiver. Not really surprising there's resistance to it. Maybe more palatable if it was reduced fees based on, say, GDP/capita. So Australia pays $60, India pays $2.
So India, so you still want to be a pawn in the quad squad of hate
Ridiculous headline from your woke abc
This is a Scamdemic and Bill Gates owned the corona virus patent so why would he give it away? Come on you are talking about the so called champion of human rights here, their media pitch good deeds and they did everything else wrong towards humanity
Agree. ScottMorrisonMP a Christian and should, as the faith teaches, be doing everything to save every life everywhere, unless of course his faith is just marketing ScottMorrisonMP
The headline is misleading and inflamatory, the actual article makes sense but put this way is rage-clickbait.
Evangelicals have been swamping PNG since 1974 & all they have done is build palaces for their rites. It is time there was secular control of education & health in PNG & religious parasites expelled. They do NOT encourage covid restrictions.
the ABC wokes at it again!
ALP and ABC has been accusing the government for not being in the front of queue for vaccine supplies and vaccinating fast enough. Now what, you are accusing the government for the opposite reason
Unfortunately it’s nearly impossible to maintain quality assurance of vaccines when produced by anyone capable of doing so. We end up with quality issues & lower confidence in these vaccines. The main problem is the availability ingredients for vaccines. Not objective journalism.
This underscores that Australia has become an elitist white conservative bastion that doesn’t give a shit about anyone except white Anglo Saxon Protestants. Don’t expect better it’s simply not there.
Charity and surplus doses are not enough for India