Britain and Germany were under intense pressure on Saturday to drop their resistance to proposals that would slash the cost of Covid-19 vaccines, following accusations that an agreement at the G7 summit to fund a billon doses will give the world’s poorest countries “crumbs from the table”.
Aid agencies said rules that protect drug patents from being illegally copied must be waived during the pandemic to accelerate the rollout of vaccines and save lives across the developing world.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday told G7 leaders in Cornwall that a temporary lifting of Covid-19 vaccine patents was essential to save lives among Africa’s 1.2 billion people.
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