The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has angrily slammed recent comments made by French scientists suggesting a vaccine for the new coronavirus should be tested in Africa.
According to the WHO chief, such comments are “racist” and a hangover from the “colonial mentality”.
“Africa cannot and will not be a testing ground for any vaccine,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference, insisting “we will follow all the rules to test any vaccine or therapeutics all over the world… whether it is in Europe, Africa or wherever.”
