The new variant Omicron has already emergedin India. Its cases have been reported in many countries till now. Manycountries have started taking safety measures and have imposed travel bansagain.
The mutation of the Omicron variant iscomparatively much faster than the delta variant. According to experts, there arechances that the third wave might come next year.
Recently, it has been reported that twopharma companies, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, are accused of playingwith the lives of many people. They have been fined billions of rupees.
When in February 2021, the corona was spreadingat a faster rate, India and South Africa went to WTO as they wanted to get somerelaxation in the Intellectual Property Rules and Regulations. According to areport, 'The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing of America' spent $ 50million in just a few days, i.e. about 3 thousand 700 crores. This amount wasspent on lobbying so that India’s proposal does not get implemented.
If theproposal was passed, it could have benefitted many small developing countries. Allthe countries would have prepared their own vaccine for their people. Itwould have been easy to give the vaccine to all people even in poor countries.
As a result, Pfizer and Johnson &Johnson took this incident as their advantage. Pfizer launched their ownmedicine into the markets, risking the lives of many people. Fines were imposed onboth the companies for using unfair means.