{"id":31794,"date":"2021-05-06T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/06\/pressure-mounts-on-australia-to-support-covid-vaccine-intellectual-property-waiver-for-developing-nations"},"modified":"2021-05-06T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:28:11","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-australia-to-support-covid-vaccine-intellectual-property-waiver-for-developing-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31794","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts on Australia to support Covid vaccine intellectual property waiver for developing nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US now supports bid to allow poorer nations to make cheap copies of vaccines, but Australia is holding out <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/us-declares-support-for-patent-waiver-on-covid-19-vaccines\">\u2022 US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pressure is mounting on Australia to support the waiver of intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/us-declares-support-for-patent-waiver-on-covid-19-vaccines\">United States reversed its long-held opposition to announce they will back the plan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia is now one of the last countries not to have thrown its support behind the waiver proposal at the World Trade Organization, after India and South Africa \u2013 who have led a global push for the waiver since October \u2013 agreed to revise their proposal after a key meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/06\/pressure-mounts-on-australia-to-support-covid-vaccine-intellectual-property-waiver-for-developing-nations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US now supports bid to allow poorer nations to make cheap copies of vaccines, but Australia is holding out \u2022 US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccinesPressure is mounting on Australia to support the waiver of intellectual property prot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1640,43,645,324,1066,346,62,86,1810,61,565,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrazeneca","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-law","category-pfizer","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31795,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794\/revisions\/31795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}