ACTU has joined with international aid groups, health organisations and church organisations to call on the Australian Government to support the proposal currently before the World Trade Organisation to allow a temporary waiver of some intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and related supplies.

Many developing countries will not have widespread access to COVID-19 vaccines until 2023 – a waiver is urgently needed to ramp up vaccine production and enable all countries affordable and timely access to COVID-19 vaccines.

The Guardian covered the story here: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/10/australia-urged-to-back-plan-to-let-poor-countries-make-cheap-copies-of-covid-vaccines