EU ready to discuss proposal on waiving patent rights for jab

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the way to fight the pandemic now was to quickly make more shots and lift export curbs on them in countries like the United States and Britain that make vaccines but do not sell them to others

India and South Africa called last year for the lifting of patent rights to vaccines as a way of boosting manufacturing and ensuring the world is supplied.

Germany - home to BioNTech which holds a patent on the highly effective mRNA vaccine together with Pfizer - argued strongly against the idea of waiving patent rights.

any action should not financially punish the companies that came up with the vaccine technology

Qns:

1) To what extent is it acceptable for private companies to be involved in financing scientific research?

2) Consider the view that scientific research should not be commercialized.