a box of Paquenil, a drug containing chloroquine. (Illustration) - Mathieu Pattier / SIPA

According to information from RTL, the President of the Executive of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni, has launched an appeal to the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran: to make Île de Beauté a pilot territory for treatment with hydroxychloroquine such that defended by the Marseille professor Didier Raoult.

Gilles Simeoni notably hopes that city doctors can prescribe and administer these drugs. The president of the executive of Corsica calls for a large-scale test, on his island, to be carried out in a framework set by the government. This request comes at a time when Corsica has been facing a major coronavirus epidemic for several weeks. According to a latest assessment, 7,650 Corsicans died from Covid-19, or more than 2% of the island's population.

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