WTO chief says vaccine inequity ‘unacceptable’


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WTO chief says vaccine inequity ‘unacceptable’ April 2, 2021 https://arab.news/n83f8-AP Gaping imbalance in access to coronavirus vaccines mostly favors rich GENEVA: The head of the World Trade Organization called Thursday for expanded capability in developing countries to manufacture vaccines, saying the gaping imbalance in access to coronavirus vaccines that mostly favors rich, developed countries was unacceptable. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said she supports the creation of a framework that would give developing countries “some automaticity and access to manufacture vaccines with technology transfer” during future pandemics, decrying the “vaccine inequity” of the current one. “The idea that 70 percent of...