<span style="color: #222222;">Pope Francis has supported waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines. He has backed the proposal by US President Joe Biden that has been rebuffed by some European nations, including Germany.<br />''<br />''In a pre-recorded video message to a global fundraising concert to promote fair access to vaccines, the Pope said, the world was infected with the virus of individualism. He said that a variant of this virus is closed nationalism, which prevents an internationalism of vaccines. Recalling the heavy death toll the Coronavirus had inflicted on the world, he added that another variant is when we put the laws of the market or of intellectual market or intellectual property over the laws of love and the health of humanity.<br />''<br />''US President Biden has backed the move earlier this week, heeding calls from India, South Africa and more than 100 other countries. However, many European countries, led by Germany and France, have distanced themselves from the suggestion, arguing that key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic was making and sharing vaccines more quickly. </span><br />'' <br />