(ANSA) - PARIS, MAY 18 - The participants in today's summit in Paris on African economies - including Prime Minister Mario Draghi - have asked for the patents on vaccines against Covid-19 to be removed. This was said by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in the final press conference.
Summit participants called for the elimination of vaccine patents "to allow vaccine production in Africa," Macron said. "We support the transfer of technologies - said the French president - in addition to a work requested by the WHO, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Medicines Patent Pool (OPP, an organization in the health sector supported by theUN) to remove all the constraints in terms of intellectual property that block the production of any type of vaccine ". (ANSA).