President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the international community to ensure that solidarity and equity underpin the next phase in world’s management of the pandemic.
“SA therefore supports the formation of the financial intermediary fund as a mechanism to finance global health security,” he said.
He told world leaders that “we continue to advocate for a TRIPS waiver in the WTO to improve global access to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics”.
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