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“The limiting factor for the production of vaccines are manufacturing capacities and high quality standards, not the patents,” a spokesperson for Merkel said Thursday, according to Bloomberg. “The protection of intellectual property is a source of innovation and this has to remain so in the future.” US Trade Representative Katherine …

Jenner – who rose to fame as an Olympic gold medalist and a star of ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ – told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday that one of her wealthy friends specifically cited homeless people on the streets as the reason he left California, because he couldn’t …

The world is now well aware of the pain and misery that engulfs India as it continues to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic. It is not a good time for the country, where death tolls keep rising and loved ones are lost well before their time.  India broke another record …

“We want the situation to be quickly unblocked through the full implementation of the trade and cooperation agreement, which provides for continued access to UK waters for fishermen who worked in these waters before Brexit,” a spokesman for the ministry said. “This is our only objective and we want to …

Thus, the share of the euro in Russia’s forex reserves decreased over the past year by 1.6 percentage points to 29.2% as of January 1. The share of the greenback dropped 3.3 percentage points, to 21.2%. The British pound’s share was also slightly down – by 0.2 percentage points, to …

While French gunboats and British warships circle one another off the coast of Jersey as protesting fishermen bait the opposing side over disputed fishing rights, at least we can all rest easy over one niggling little problem that has been resolved amicably. The European Union ambassador to the United Kingdom, …

Can you imagine a world where every single country possible had access to producing Covid-19 vaccines, and there was not such a troublesome thing called “intellectual property” which puts profit and Big Pharma revenues before human need and well-being? If this utopian vision was so easy to put into place, …

The proposals to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines “don’t contradict” the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which allow such an option during emergencies, Putin said on Thursday. The Russian president instructed Tatyana Golikova, the deputy prime minister responsible for social policy, to explore patent waivers. “Of …

Sputnik Light is the first component of the widely used Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, its researchers explained. However, the single dose has shown 79.4% efficacy, which “is higher than that of many two-dose vaccines,” the developers said in a statement. Researchers have analyzed the efficacy rate based on data received …

Using their NHS number or by verifying their identity, vaccine-eligible users can book appointments for their Covid jab. However, it turned out there is currently no safeguard built into the site to protect against a person’s confidential vaccination status being disclosed to anyone with basic personal information about them. This …