South Africa remains at the forefront of efforts at the World Trade Organisation to trigger waivers that would temporarily suspend patent laws that are limiting the global production of COVID-19 vaccines and other medical products.
Initiated in October by South Africa and India, the move has now seen more than 100 countries including China support the effort to apply waivers to parts of the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - known as TRIPS.
This could pave the way for developing countries to produce vaccines and other products more readily but in a consensus-driven organisation like the WTO, nothing is as simple as it seems.

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