Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangu’la has condemned a proposal by some European nations and scientists that COVID-19 vaccine test should be done in Africa. Wetangula’s objection came barely a day after French doctors suggested that Africa was the best continent for the samples to be used because it is “incapable of fighting COVID-19”.
In a strongly-worded statement shared on his Twitter handle, the FORD Kenya party leader called on African leaders to reject any attempt to use African people as “Guinea pigs”.
The proposal has irked many people on the continent with majority of Kenyans trooping to social media sites to slam European nations and scientists for attempting to use Africans as “lab rats”. Globally, there are over 1 million COVID-19 infections and a total of 59, 172 deaths recorded so far. Out of these numbers, the United States (US) has the highest number of infections currently standing at 277,467 and the third-highest number of deaths at 7, 402.
Italy has the highest number of deaths standing at 14, 681 and second-highest number of infections currently at 119,827. Spain has 119, 199 infections and a total of 11, 198 fatalities, being the second-highest number of deaths after Italy. Germany has 91, 159 COVID-19 infections and 1,275 deaths while China, where the disease began, has 81, 639 infections and 3, 326 fatalities.
Africa as a whole has so far confirmed 212 deaths with most countries recording less than 1000 infection cases apart from South Africa whose case has hit 1, 505. Kenya has 122 COVID-19 infections which have so far resulted in four deaths.
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