Johannesburg, South Africa: South Africa on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) hailed a World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement to allow developing countries to start producing their own Covid vaccines following a near two-year battle.
"We secured an agreement. It was a strongly-fought agreement," said Minister of Trade Ebrahim Patel, who along with India and NGOs had been calling for an intellectual property rights waiver on Covid-related treatments.
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