Meeting the Global Covid-19 challenge: effects of waiver of the WTO TRIPS agreement on Covid-19 vaccines, treatment, equipment and increasing production and manufacturing capacity in developing countries

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How the groups voted

GroupForAgainstAbstainedAbsentUnity

The Left39

39000100%

S&D146

14003398%

Greens/EFA73

690

The European Parliament adopted by 355 votes to 263, with 71 abstentions, a resolution on ‘Meeting the global COVID-19 challenge’.The text adopted in plenary was tabled as a joint resolution by the EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA groups.Members recalled that there have been approximately 172 000 000 cases of COVID-19, resulting in over 3.7 million deaths worldwide and that 11 billion doses are needed to vaccinate 70 % of the world’s population, although only a fraction of this amount has been produced.Expressing its deep concern about the evolution of the pandemic, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, Parliament called for support for negotiations on the text of a temporary waiver of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement…