WTO covid [diplomacia de vacinas?]



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De acordo com os dados da Bridge Consulting, 36 países africanos receberam já vacinas da China, através de vendas ou doações. No entanto, Marrocos, Algéria, Egito e Zimbabué compõem 76% das entregas, com 32 milhões de doses. https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/1804077/quatro-paises-de-africa-receberam-76-das-vacinas-providas-pela-china 

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World Trade Organization countries failed anew on Tuesday to agree a proposal to suspend intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines in order to boost production and fill a void in poor nations. SA and India have been pushing for a temporary waiver of some IP rights on vaccines and other treatments, which could allow local manufacturers to produce the shots. The two countries have argued that this is essential to address inequitable supply.  They brought forward the intellectual property waiver idea in October. WTO states held talks at the global body's headquarters in Geneva but could not reach a consensus, WTO spokesperson Keith Rockwell told reporters following nine months of discussions on what he called a "very emotional issue." Members will hold an informal meeting in early September to discuss the state of play, followed by a formal meeting on 13 and 14 October this year. "There's no way they're going to stop discussing this. It's too important," Rockwell said, after hours of talks on day one of the two-day WTO General Council meeting. "It's a very emotional issue, and it's not going to stop. https://www.news24.com/fin24/economy/wto-fails-to-agree-to-medical-waiver-that-could-unlock-covid-19-vaccine-supply-20210728

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India is among the five World Trade Organisation's (WTO) members to have produced about 75 per cent of this year's vaccines across the world. WTO's Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that the five-member states of the organisation alone will account for three-quarters of the entire global output of COVID-19 vaccines this year, ANI reported. "Production remains highly centralised - about 75 per cent of this year's vaccines appear set to come from five WTO members - China, India, Germany, the United States, and France," the WTO Director-General said at a high-level dialogue on "Expanding COVID-19 vaccine manufacture to promote equitable access."

https://thelogicalindian.com/trending/india-among-5-wto-member-nations-to-produce-75-of-worlds-covid-vaccines-29793

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China has provided more than 500 million doses of vaccines to other developing countries, and will provide another US$3 billion in aid over the next three years to support COVID-19 response and economic and social recovery in other developing countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the APEC Informal Economic Leaders' Retreat via video link in Beijing on Friday night. China has financed the founding of a Sub-Fund on APEC Cooperation on Combating COVID-19 and Economic Recovery, which will help APEC economies win an early victory over COVID-19 and achieve economic recovery, Xi said. Xi said China supports waiving intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines, and will work with other parties to push for an early decision by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international institutions. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1228862.shtml



 The pandemic shed a harsh new light on these preexisting vulnerabilities. The European Union, for instance, in the early months of the pandemic, put emergency export restrictions on hospital supplies to non-EU countries; China, in turn, was able to harness these shortages to enhance its own influence in Europe’s neighbourhood and beyond.[16] Even as Western manufacturing companies (AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech) have struggled to fulfil contracted preorders in the Global North, countries in parts of the Global South have had to turn to Chinese and Russian suppliers (their alternatives constrained, in part, by the WTO’s rules on TRIPS). Amid mask shortages and bilateral deals to acquire desperately needed drugs and equipment, the pandemic has revealed that the weaponisation of interdependence can have life-or-death consequences. And the WTO has failed to keep up with these changing ground realities. https://www.orfonline.org/research/holding-up-a-mirror-to-the-world-trade-organization-lessons-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/


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