File photo. Image: PA File photo. Image: PA THE EU, BRITAIN and Japan continued to voice doubts at the WTO today about a proposed intellectual property waiver on Covid-19 products such as vaccines, a Geneva trade official said.
However, some member states “continued to express doubts about the convenience of starting negotiations and asked for more time” to analyse the proposal, the official said. The trade official said differences continued on the question of whether, and to what extent, IP protection was holding up the goal of beating the pandemic, and about the use and potential improvement of existing flexibilities within the TRIPS terms.
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