Thanks, I'm not from that region so I barely monitor news there.
What the hell they are thinking?
My guess would be that they prefer non-local test subjects because "lives are cheaper there".
That's pretty cruel and inhumane. Even China tested theirs on the locals rather than outsourcing from another country.
Extracted from the BBC article, this statement is sufficient to make bloods boil:
Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at Cochin hospital in Paris, then says: “If I can be provocative, shouldn't we be doing this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatments, no resuscitation?”