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South Africa asks for vaccine-waiver support at EU-AU summit
By EUobserver
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, as he arrived at the EU-AU summit on Thursday, called for the EU to support African Union's demands to lift patent protections on Covid-19 vaccines. "They [Europe] have been giving vaccines but now we need to move to the TRIPS dispensation so we can produce our own vaccines. For us, that's very important," he said before the summit itself started.