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WHO members' pandemic accord talks to spill into 2025

Plant manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines. [iStockphoto]

Talks between WHO member states on a landmark global accord on handling future pandemics will roll into 2025 after countries decided Monday there were too many gaps to seal a deal this year.

The key faultline in the negotiations lies between Western nations with major pharmaceutical industry sectors, and poorer countries who do not want to be sidelined when the next pandemic strikes.

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