, will tell the committee that Ireland’s continued opposition to the Trips waiver “is in contravention of Ireland’s human rights obligations and it is greatly damaging Ireland’s international reputation as a champion of low-income countries”.“It’s time Ireland supported the Trips waiver, helped save millions of lives and put an end to this pandemic,” he will say.“Production is not the problem.
There are already more than enough vaccines for the world. The problem is they are not getting to the people who most need them fast enough,”He says 12 million doses of Covid vaccine had been produced by the end of January but only 10 billion had been administered. at the end of last year that aggressive efforts to provide boosters to adult populations and to children in richer countries will lead to a three billion shortfall in Covid vaccine shots in poorer parts of the world.