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May 2021
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US to support temporary suspension of Co...

Financial Times
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Stocks of major vaccine makers were rattled on Wednesday after the US decided to support a plan to temporarily suspend the intellectual property rights for Covid-19 jabs, and India’s coronavirus crisis is hitting the international shipping industry. Plus, the FT’s leisure industries correspondent, Alice Hancock, talks about the European tourism industry’s hopes of emerging from the pandemic with a different kind of tourism. 


US backs plan to suspend Covid vaccine patents during pandemic

https://www.ft.com/content/eca86f43-7127-4213-948d-3cc8d652805e


India’s Covid surge rocks global shipping industry

https://www.ft.com/content/cf40d764-6ab6-4638-bea6-594cc3cd5d53?


Archegos prepares for insolvency as banks seek compensation for $10bn losses

https://www.ft.com/content/8062ef53-790f-4470-99d5-265335a72334


Pandemic offers Europe’s tourism industry the chance of an upgrade

https://www.ft.com/content/5f3328f4-b12e-4e5b-8dd2-bacfb73d40a6?



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