French doctor and hydroxychloroquine advocate Didier Raoult is being questioned by French lawmakers on Tuesday during an inquiry into the country’s handling of the epidemic.
FRANCE 24 health reporter Julia Sieger says the epidemiologist will be asked questions over his decision to quit the High Scientific Council at the beginning of the crisis, and how he could test so many people at his southern France hospital when there was a widespread shortage of available tests. International experts have criticised France for its poor handling of the Covid-19 epidemic.
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