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WTO members urge DG to hold urgent talks with COVID-19 vaccine developers
World Trade Organization members on Tuesday (9 March) urged its director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to hold talks with COVID-19 vaccine developers and manufacturers to scale up production, a document signed by seven members and seen by Reuters showed, writes Emma Farge.
“The WTO should rapidly make use of its resources to the full extent to foster a prompt, pragmatic and tangible acceleration in the global response to COVID-19, and particularly the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines,” said the communication, which was dated March 9 and co-sponsored by Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, New Zealand, Norway and Turkey.
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