Don’t Share Vaccine Formula with India: Bill Gates

India is currently hit devastatingly by the second wave of Coronavirus, which is proving to be so much more fatal than the first wave. Almost every country around the world is stepping in to help India in whichever way it can.

While everyone is doing their own share of help, one person has made controversial statements. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, in a recent interview, said that the coronavirus vaccine formula is not to be shared with India, or with any other developing countries.

He was highly criticized for the comment he made, and when asked for an explanation for his comments by Sky New Interview, Bill Gates said that the Intellectual Property Act cannot be changed, which makes it impossible to share the formula of Coronavirus vaccine. Furthermore, Bill Gates also said that the vaccine manufacturing plant of Johnson and Johnson in America, and the vaccine manufacturing plants in India are different. He said that the money and expertise that is put into making the vaccines in America is what makes the vaccines successful.

At a time when India is going through its worst crisis, and when everyone is stepping in to help the country, it is rather too inhumane for Bill Gates to have said something like this, and he is facing high criticism for it right now.