The comments triggered outrage on social media.
"Africa isn’t a testing lab," retired Ivory Coast soccer star, Didier Drogba, wrote on Twitter."I would like to vividly denounce those demeaning, false and most of all deeply racist words."In a statement on Friday, Mira's employer, the Paris network of hospitals, quoted Mira as saying:"I want to present all my apologies to those who were hurt, shocked and felt insulted by the remarks that I clumsily expressed on LCI this week.
Locht could not be immediately reached for comment. Inserm said on Twitter that the video of the exchange was being misinterpreted, without elaborating, and noted that the vaccine is only being trialled in Europe and Australia at present.
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