Learning on the job: French student doctor thrown into coronavirus front line


  • World
  • Wednesday, 01 Apr 2020

FILE PHOTO: Medical student Elodie Vieira, wearing protective suit and face mask, poses at an emergency COVID-19 center inside a gymnasium in Champigny-sur-Marne near Paris as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues in France, March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes - RC21VF9LVJ2I/File Photo

CHAMPIGNY-SUR-MARNE, France (Reuters) - Medical student Elodie Vieira uses her stethoscope to check the breathing of a patient, who coughs strongly as she gets closer.

"Very sorry," says the patient at a coronavirus testing facility near Paris.

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