Joe Biden's breakthrough on vaccines:
the US administration has announced that it is in favor of removing patent protections for vaccines against Covid-19 and is "actively" committed to this in the ongoing negotiations at the WTO.
A move that could pave the way for an acceleration of the production and distribution of doses all over the world, especially in the poorest countries, but which has already caused the shares of pharmaceutical companies to collapse on the stock market.
"This is a global health crisis and the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic call for extraordinary measures," said US trade representative Katherine Tai in a statement. "The Biden administration firmly believes in intellectual property protections but to put an end to this pandemic it supports the lifting of certain protections for Covid-19 vaccines," he stressed. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki anticipated that Joe Biden was in favor of this revocation and that the president intends to talk about it in the next few hours.
The announcement came hours after WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala spoke at a closed-door meeting of developing and developed country ambassadors who were arguing over the issue but agreed on the need for wider access to coronavirus treatments. According to a spokesman for the World Trade Organization, Keith Rockwell, a WTO intellectual property panel is due to address the proposal again at a preliminary meeting this month, ahead of a formal meeting scheduled for June 8 and 9. .
Nearly 4,000 deaths and more than 412,000 new cases in the past 24 hours
: so India marks two new record data regarding Covid, which is spreading in the country. According to the Ministry of Health, the victims in the last day were 3,980, bringing the total to 230,168 since the beginning of the pandemic. There are 412,262 new cases, which bring the overall figure to 21.1 million.