With one week to go before the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, members have still not come to an agreement over lifting patents on Covid-19 vaccines.
At a General Council meeting that was held on 22 November at the WTO, the organisation’s Director General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, reiterated the urgent need to ensure an agreement is reached. In her view, it would be really difficult to achieve an outcome on the WTO response to Covid-19...