The World Trade Organization calls for accelerating the provision of vaccines against Corona to poor countries

Geneva-Sana

The Director of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela, has called for the rapid provision of vaccines against the Corona virus to poor countries.

Reuters quoted Iwela as saying in a press interview today, “There is a way for a global agreement to provide more Covid-19 vaccines to developing countries, despite the division over the possibility of stripping pharmaceutical companies of intellectual property rights to vaccines,” expressing hope that the matter will become clearer by July regarding the issue of Assignment of intellectual property rights.