Biden urged not to accept India, South Africa’s proposal at WTO on COVID-19 vaccine

Biden urged not to accept India, South Africa’s proposal at WTO on COVID-19 vaccine

The Hindu

Four top Republican senators have urged U.S. President Joe Biden not to accept a proposal by India and South Africa to the WTO to waive anti-Covid vaccine patents, saying that waiving all rights to intellectual property would end the innovation pipeline and stop the development of new vaccines or boosters to address variants in the virus. Mike Lee, Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst and Todd Young, in a letter to President Biden, urged him to reject the upcoming proposal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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