{"id":207300,"date":"2020-04-05T14:35:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=207300"},"modified":"2020-04-05T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:36:06","slug":"covid-19-vaccine-in-africa-john-boyega-blasts-french-doctors-over-racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=207300","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Vaccine in Africa: John Boyega blasts French doctors over racist comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">British-Nigerian actor, John Boyega has reacted to opinion by two French doctors, Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht that the new COVID-19 drug be tested in Africa.<br \/>\nMira and Locht, had during a live TV interview, which now has the highest trend on Twitter with the hashtag \u2018Africans are not lab rats\u2019, insisted that Africa is the best place to conduct such a test as they recalled how an experimental treatment for AIDS was carried out in Africa.<br \/>\nReacting bitterly to the statement, John Boyega reiterated that Africa is not a lab rat.<br \/>\nHe wrote, \u201cJust horrible. Africa isn\u2019t a testing lab you pieces of shit.\u201d<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Chelsea defender, Antonio Rudiger, who found the comments to be repulsive, took to his official Twitter account on Saturday to say, \u201cIt took me some time to find some words for these guys.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is racism at its highest level and a terrible statement against all the black-skinned.<br \/>\n\u201cHow was this even allowed to be broadcasted on French TV?\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British-Nigerian actor, John Boyega has reacted to opinion by two French doctors, Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht that the new COVID-19 drug be tested in Africa. Mira and Locht, had during a live TV interview, which now has the highest trend on Twitter with the hashtag \u2018Africans are not lab rats\u2019, insisted that Africa is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[14301,2658,14575],"class_list":["post-207300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5g","tag-a","tag-covid-19"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}