Rich countries are refusing to waive the rights on Covid vaccines as global cases hit record levels

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• The landmark proposal, which was jointly submitted by India and South Africa in October, has been backed by more than 100 mostly developing countries.
• Six months on, the proposal continues to be stonewalled by a small number of governments — including the U.S., EU, U.K., Switzerland, Japan, Norway, Canada, Australia and Brazil.
• Andrew Stroehlein, European media director of Human Rights Watch, said via Twitter on Thursday the fact that high-income countries were “throttling vaccine production globally by blocking the TRIPS waiver ... is a scandal that affects us all.”