Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) rules amid the coronavirus pandemic.For the past several weeks, India's Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, along with the diplomats from South Africa, had been meeting US lawmakers and officials regarding the proposal."We appreciate the US administration’s announcement today of its support for waiver of IPR for Covid-19 vaccines," Sandhu told PTI on Wednesday.Making the announcement, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said this is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures."The (Biden) administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic,.