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Explanation:
On 23 March 2020 the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, asked the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros, to “undertake an effort to pool rights to technologies that are useful for the detection, prevention, control and treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic.”1 The letter envisaged a voluntary arrangement whereby owners of intellectual property (IP) and other forms of knowledge, clinical data and know-how relevant to the development and manufacture of diagnostic tests, devices, medicines, or vaccines would contribute these to a pool. The details of the arrangements would need to be determined through consultation with the holders of the relevant knowledge and technologies.