Under the proposal, India and South Africa have sought temporary relaxations for IP, patents and other such provisions laid out under the TRIPS Agreement of the WTO.
According to scientists, vaccines that work well now may fade in the future unless booster shots are devised, something vaccine makers are already starting to work on.
Moderna tests show vaccine produced antibodies against UK strain at levels comparable with older forms of virus. But against the South Africa variant, antibodies produced were six-fold lower.
Announcement comes amid increasing Covid infections in South Africa, which is battling a second wave and a new variant of the virus with 22,000 infections and 844 deaths.
Greens have a sizeable support in the Western countries with clean air and blue skies, but not in India, where poisonous air, water and soil kill millions.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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