Macron wants patent-free vaccines to save Africa

by time news

Time.news – African, European and other continent governments and international organizations that participated in the Paris summit on the African economy agree in calling for the elimination of patent protection for vaccines against Covid-19. This was stated by the French president, Emmanuel Macron.

“We support technology transfers and the initiative that has been requested by WHO, from the WTO e from the Medicines Patent Pool (sustained dall’On, ed) to remove all the restrictions in terms of intellectual property that block the production of any type of vaccine “, the French president told reporters at the end of the conference.

Once the patent protection of vaccines against Covid-19 has been removed, the goal to be set is to vaccinate 40% of the African population by the end of 2021. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, told reporters at the end of the summit of Paris on the African economy. “We are asking the WHO, the WTO and the Medicines Patent Pool to remove all these intellectual property constraints that block the production of a certain type of vaccine,” Macron said.

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