Collaboration, innovation and free trade among countries will get us through this global crisis


A lab tech working on a Covid-19 vaccine at the Inselspital Universitaetsspital Bern university hospital in Switzerland. Different, and often competing, organisations have been cooperating and sharing proprietary data, know-how and technology in the search for a vaccine. — Reuters

No single country can go it alone in dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak within its borders without the support and assistance of and collaboration with its neighbours as well as with other governments around the world.

Of late, many countries are looking into failed protectionist policies of the past for solutions to the current economic crisis. Old barriers are being re-established and new ones added to address immediate shortages of medical supplies, medicines, and devices.

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