The Push for Equity, Discriminatory Travel Bans Dominate WHO Special Assembly; Omicron Brings the TRIPS Waiver Into Focus

Newsletter Edition #111 [The Weekly Primer]

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Late last Friday, it seemed as if the ground was giving way in the world of trade diplomacy. An emergency convening of the WTO General Council, resulted in the postponement of the much-awaited ministerial conference that was scheduled to begin today.

Dramatic as the events were, it was nevertheless to be expected, in the crazed new normal that this p…