The World Health Organisation, WHO, Chief, Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus, has angrily condemned recent comments made by some Scientists, as well as Microsoft co-Founder, Bill Gates, suggesting that a vaccine for the new coronavirus should be tested in Africa, as “racist”, and a hangover from the “colonial mentality”.
“Africa cannot and will not be a testing ground for any vaccine”, the WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a virtual news conference, insisting that, “we will follow all the rules to test any vaccine or therapeutics all over the world… whether it is in Europe, Africa, or wherever”.
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