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US supports plan to waive intellectual property rights on vaccine

Medical supplies being loaded into a cargo plane to be sent to India, at Roissy airport, north of Paris

Medical supplies being loaded into a cargo plane to be sent to India, at Roissy airport, north of Paris Source: AAP

The World Health Organisation has called US decision to waive patents on vaccine a "monumental moment" in the fight against COVID-19.


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