Costa Rica asks WHO to create voluntary COVID-19 IP pool

The Costa Rican government has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to create a voluntary pool to collect patent rights for technologies that are useful for the detection, prevention, control and treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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