EU Invites 'Concrete' US Plan on Vaccine Patents
RAMADAN 27, 1442 AH SUNDAY, MAY 9, 2021 16 Pages Max 43º Min 27º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18430 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait’s travel agencies doubtful Jerusalem clashes wound Newcastle dent Leicester’s about industry rebound this year more than 200 Palestinians Champions League bid 3 5 15 Fajr 03:32 Shurooq 05:00 Dhuhr 11:44 Asr 15:20 Maghrib 18:29 Isha 19:54 EU invites ‘concrete’ US plan on vaccine patents Virus deaths top 4,000 in India as pope calls for patent waivers PORTO, Portugal: Europe yesterday passed the table,” Michel said at an EU summit in of others”. “A variant of this virus is closed the ball back to Washington in a debate over Portugal that discussed that subject, among nationalism, which prevents, for example, an Saudi: Only vaccinated COVID vaccine patents, pushing the US for a others. internationalism of vaccines,” he said. concrete proposal and a commitment to He added that the EU had doubts about The World Health Organization, India and can return to workplace export much-needed jabs. Germany’s the idea being a “magic bullet” in the short South Africa have all called for patents to be Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking after a term and encouraged “all the partners to facil- temporarily suspended. RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said Friday ministry said it has administered summit of EU and Indian leaders, said the EU itate the export of doses.” France’s skepticism Meanwhile, new COVID-19 deaths surged that employees will only be allowed more than 10 million coronavirus had exported much of its own production and was plain, with President Emmanuel Macron past 4,000 for the first time in India yesterday to return to their workplace in per- vaccine doses, in a country with a that America should follow suit.
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