Delegations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) gave their first impressions at a meeting on Friday 6 May on the quadrilateral agreement that was reached in March between South Africa, the US, India and the EU. The agreement provides for the lifting of patents on Covid-19 vaccines for production in “developing countries that exported less than 10% of global vaccine doses in 2021”.
China, which is primarily affected by these criteria (it is a developing country, but has exported more...