The World Health Organization declared the health emergency last month but efforts to curb the spread of the disease have been hampered by a lack of vaccines
Democratic Republic of Congo, epicentre of an mpox outbreak that prompted a UN declaration of a global public health emergency, said it expects to receive its first delivery of vaccine doses on Thursday and a second delivery on Saturday.
At a news conference in Geneva later in the day, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed the doses were due to arrive in Congo. They are manufactured by Bavarian Nordic and donated by the European Union. Kacita had said on Monday that Congo hoped to start the first wave of vaccination on Oct. 8, but that this would depend on it receiving vaccines this week.
“We need to communicate so that the population accepts the vaccination,” he said, adding that the six targeted provinces had capacity to store the doses at the required temperature. Dose numbers are still limited, she said, so at first vaccinations will be focused on the contacts of known cases.
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