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06 May 2021The pharmaceutical company 

says it is not convinced of the American idea of ​​eliminating the patents of vaccines against Covid to promote their diffusion: "Patents are not the limiting factor in the production and supply of our vaccine". Indeed, "the world production or the supply of vaccine doses would not increase in the short and medium term", say the experts of the German laboratory that produces the vaccine together with the American 

which also through the CEO Albert Bourla says of be "not at all" in favor of the removal of patents on anti-covid vaccines.

And even Farmindustria says it is surprised at the possible derogation from patents: "The declarations and international initiatives aimed at reducing or canceling the protection of patents are surprising and worrying. Initiatives that certainly do not solve the problem of having suffered more vaccines". "It would not serve to increase production or to offer the solutions necessary to overcome the pandemic. Instead, it could have the opposite effect: divert resources, raw materials to less efficient production sites. And it could lead to an increase in counterfeiting globally" .

"The decision of the

administration

to support the suspension of Big Pharma's intellectual property rights on Covid vaccines is a first and courageous step, which international civil society has been taking for months now, in order to increase the global supply of doses and thus put an end to the pandemic. Now, however, it is up to the

and Italy to take a firm and clear stance that goes in the same direction ".  

, members of the Peoples Vaccine Alliance say so. 

The two organizations also launch an urgent appeal to European leaders," first of all to the president Italian

and the President of the European Commission

- which in these hours has expressed its willingness to discuss the proposed suspension of patents - to tighten the time and move from words to deeds, before it is too late ".  

The President of the European Parliament

responds cautiously to them

:" Parliament is ready to discuss any proposal that will help accelerate the global vaccination process, "but" in these exceptional times, we must ensure that patents and licenses to work to protect the interests of all, "points out on Twitter.

a surprise, the leader of the Kremlin,

, arrives in support of the American idea

: "We support the idea of ​​free access to vaccines, Russia is ready to support the idea of ​​eliminating patent protection from coronavirus vaccines," said the Russian president quoted by Interfax.