The new Minister of Investigation of Germany, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, rejected this Friday the liberalization of the patents of vaccines against COVID-19, with which he adopted the same line of the Government of the ex-chancellor Angela Merkel who said goodbye this December.
“Companies do research for a long time and invest a lot, before obtaining authorization. A liberalization of the patents it would put an end to this, “the minister warned in a statement to the media from the” Funke “group.
Stark-Watzinger assured that the suspension of the patents would jeopardize the development of new vaccines and opted instead to try to increase production, promising that Germany “It will continue to donate many millions of doses.”
Accessible vaccines
After the United States, Germany is the second largest contributor to the Global Access Fund for Vaccines COVID-19, Covax and one of the main donors of the international Cepi alliance for the development of vaccines, as recalled by the liberal minister.
Supporters of the liberalization of patents They argue that it would help make vaccines more affordable and make them available to the population of the global South, with vaccination quotas still very low.
India and South Africa lead a coalition made up of a hundred countries that have been calling for a temporary suspension of the patents of vaccines against COVID-19 to increase its production in the form of generics.
(With information from EFE)
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