“AFRICA IS NOT A TESTING LAB” AFRICAN EX-SOCCER PLAYERS REACT Ex-African football stars Samuel Eto’o and Didier Drogba have blasted suggestions that COVI-19 vaccines should be tested in Africa. On Thursday, April 2, Camille Locht, Director of the Research Institute of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), and Jean Paul Mira, Cochin Hospital Intensive Care Service Officer, while being interviewed on a TV show in France, suggested that the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trial should be conducted in Africa. If I can be provocative, shouldn’t we be doing this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatments, no resuscitation?” Dr Mira said on TV channel LCI. A bit like as it is done elsewhere for some studies on Aids. In prostitutes, we try things because we know that they are highly exposed and that they do not protect themselves.” said Dr. Mira. The expression by French doctor angered most Africans and who would blame them? Since the outbreak of COVID-1...
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