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What does waiving intellectual rights for Covid-19 jabs mean?

As World Trade Organisation (WTO) members look for signs of progress in talks on a proposal by South Africa and India to waive patent rights on Covid-19 vaccines to boost supply to developing countries, the United States has moved to lend its support to the plan.

Those behind the proposal want to ease rules of the WTO’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement.

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