The WHO effort comes amid concerns rich countries pumping resources into finding vaccines will muscle their way to the front of the queue, once a candidate succeeds
A lab technician extracts a portion of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate during testing at the Chula Vaccine Research Center, in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 25, 2020.Thirty countries led by Costa Rica and the World Health Organization launched an initiative on Friday aimed at sharing vaccines, medicines and diagnostic tools to tackle the global coronavirus pandemic.
The WHO effort comes amid concerns rich countries pumping resources into finding vaccines – more than 100 are in development – will muscle their way to the front of the queue, once a candidate succeeds.Switzerland, home of big drugmakers Roche and Novartis, has also raised fears of “vaccine nationalism”, saying it wants to ensure fair access.
The effort, originally proposed in March, aims to provide a one-stop shop for scientific knowledge, data and intellectual property amid a pandemic that has infected more than 5.8 million people and killed some 360,000.
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