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Pope Francis calls for vaccine patent waiver

Pope Francis calls for vaccine patent waiver
Pope Francis calls for vaccine patent waiver

Pope Francis has offered his support for waiving coronavirus vaccine patents to boost supply to poorer countries, in a video message to the Vax Live concert, The Guardian reports.

The Argentine pontiff backed “universal access to the vaccine and the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights” in the recording made in his native Spanish.

Francis, who has repeatedly spoken of the need to share vaccines, condemned the “virus of individualism” that “makes us indifferent to the suffering of others”.

“A variant of this virus is closed nationalism, which prevents, for example, an internationalism of vaccines,” he said. “Another variant is when we put the laws of the market or intellectual property above the laws of love and the health of humanity.”

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