The US has agreed to share research tools and intellectual property for technology used to make Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization in a bid to make the treatments more widely available in poorer nations.
President Joe Biden announced the move on Thursday at a virtual global Covid-19 summit jointly hosted by the US, Belize, Germany, Indonesia and Senegal.
He said the US would “share critical Covid-19 technologies” through the WHO Covid-19 Technology Access pool. Health technologies owned by the US government that would now be made available included “stabilised spike protein that is used in many Covid-19 vaccines”, he said.