India, South Africa ask WTO to waive rules for Covid drugs - The Daily Guardian

Correspondent — October 5, 2020, 9:59 am

India and South Africa have asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive intellectual property rules to make it easier for developing countries to produce or import Covid-19 drugs, a letter to the WTO shows. In a letter dated 2 October the two countries called on WTO to waive parts of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which governs patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property rules globally.