UK government to support patent waiver for production of Covid-19 vaccines.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Support the proposed patent waiver on production of COVID-19 vaccines, as proposed by the WTO on 15th January 2021 https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/IP/C/W673.pdf&Open=True

The is the morally correct thing for the UK government to do to enable developing countries to offer vaccination to their people as soon as possible.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Support the proposal to suspend patents for COVID-19 vaccines
Support the proposal to suspend patents for COVID-19 vaccines

Timeline

19 Feb 2021	Petition opened for signatures
2 Mar 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 2 Mar 2021

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