During a second global Covid virtual summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) needs to be reformed to augment global health security architecture.
The prime minister stressed on to bring flexibility in the WTO's rules relating to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS).
"The World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, particularly TRIPS need to be more flexible. WHO must be reformed and strengthened to build a more resilient global health security architecture," PM Modi said in the opening session of the summit.
He also highlighted the role played by India in combating the coronavirus pandemic.
"Our vaccination programme is the largest in the world. We have fully vaccinated almost 90% of the adult population and more than 50 million children. India manufactures four WHO-approved vaccines and can produce five billion doses this year," he said.
Talking about providing vaccines to other countries, the PM said, "We supplied over 200 million doses to 98 countries, bilaterally and through COVAX. India has developed low-cost Covid mitigation technologies for testing, treating, and data management. We have offered these capabilities to other countries."
