Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and then declared a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 (WHO, 2022c). COVID-19 has since affected millions of people all over...

After nearly two years of intense negotiations, member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has finally agreed on a deal that waives patents and other intellectual property rights (IPRs) on Covid-19 vaccines. However, the highly restrictive deal – “at best, a distant cousin...

On 17 June 2022, World Trade Organization (WTO) waived patent rights on Covid-19 vaccines, aiming to boost global supply with generic production to address vaccine inequity in developing countries that currently do not have the capacity to produce Covid-19 vaccines.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly infectious respiratory syndrome caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)virus. The symptoms include shortness of breath, high fever, and dry cough. The disease broke out in China towards the end of...

An epidemic is an occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy. While a pandemic refers to an epidemic occurring worldwide or over a very wide area, crossing...