RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Faced with the international impasse over the Covid-19 vaccine patents, the European Union has informally sounded out the Brazilian government to form a group at the WTO (World Trade Organization) to debate the issue. The objective is to present an alternative proposal to the suspension of intellectual property rights of vaccines, an initiative led by South Africa and India.
Interlocutors told Folha newspaper that the Europeans want to draft a text that can be taken to the WTO and overcome the impasse in the debate about patents on vaccines and other inputs used to combat . . .
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