'Advocates across the globe are calling for the WTO to urgently deliver a waiver that can help ensure that all countries are equipped with the tools needed to save lives and bring the pandemic under control,' says Public_Citizen. TRIPSwaiver
However, as Public Citizen noted this week,"one year later, as President Biden and world leaders prepare for next week's Global Covid Summit, the WTO has failed to deliver this important waiver, pharmaceutical companies continue to refuse to share vaccine technology, and funding for the global Covid response is drying up—all while the pandemic rages across the globe.
Next week, Biden will co-host the Second Global Covid-19 Summit, a virtual gathering of world leaders to"build on the themes and commitments" of last year's conference, at which the president urged nations to work toward vaccinating 70% of the world's population within a year. As of April, nearly 58% of the world's population, or around 4.4. billion people, had been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus,the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. However, Global South nations had far lower inoculation rates. In 16 countries—13 of them in Sub-Saharan Africa—less than 10% of people were fully vaccinated, with rates as low as 1% in Haiti and less than one-tenth of 1% in Burundi.
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