Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director general of WTO (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP Images)

WTO ap­proach­es a deal ear­ly next week for a Covid-19 vac­cine IP waiv­er

Get­ting a Covid-19 vac­cine IP waiv­er through the World Trade Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WTO) has been a long road filled with re­vi­sions and de­lays, but WTO lead­er­ship says that a deal might be in place soon.

TRIPS Coun­cil chair, Am­bas­sador Lansana Gberie of Sier­ra Leone, said as part of a state­ment from the WTO, that de­spite the ini­tial dif­fi­cul­ties around the waiv­er, del­e­ga­tions “have en­tered in­to re­al ne­go­ti­a­tion mode in the last 24 hours.”

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