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Two French doctors under fire after saying testing for a vaccine against coronavirus should be carried out in Africa

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o have slammed comments made by two French doctors

Football legends Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o have criticized comments made by two French doctors who said that COVID-19 vaccines should be tested on Africans first.

The two French doctors, Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at Cochin hospital in Paris, and Camille Locht, head of research at the Inserm health research group, speaking on live TV claimed that testing for a vaccine against coronavirus should be carried out in Africa.

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