Waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines will not be enough to narrow the huge supply gap between rich and poor countries, the head of the World Trade Organization said on Thursday.
South Africa and India have urged fellow WTO members to waive IP rights on vaccines to boost production. Poorer countries that make up half the world’s population have received just 17% of doses, a situation the World Health Organization head has labelled “vaccine apartheid”.
U.S. President Joe Biden said last week he supported the waiver idea, but the European Union and other developed country…
