11/01/2022 (Agence Europe) – The Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, called, on 10 January, for “urgent action” to achieve a result on the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. On the intellectual property rights of Covid-19 vaccines, she recalled her hope and efforts for a group of informal members to prepare an agreement text on which the rest of the WTO members could then build a consensus. “It is a slow, but steady progress. We are hopeful...