The World Health Organization has angrily reacted to some
French doctors' suggestion of Africa being the test ground for new Coronavirus
drugs.
Earlier reports that Jean Paul Mira and
Camille Locht who spoke on a live TV interview, insisted that Africa is the
best place to conduct such test as they recalled how an experimental treatment
for AIDS was carried out in Africa.
However the international health agency's chief, Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the comment as “racist” and a hangover from
“colonial mentality”.
Speaking in a virtual news conference, he said;
“Africa cannot and will not be a testing ground for any
vaccine. We will follow all the rules to test any vaccine or therapeutics all
over the world… whether it is in Europe, Africa or wherever.”
