DRC receives 50,000 doses of Mpox vaccine
The Democratic Republic of Congo has announced that 50,000 doses of Mpox vaccine arrived last Tuesday, one week after the first shipment from the European Union arrived in the country.
Cris Kacita Osako, coordinator of the Congolese committee to deal with Monkeypox, said that adults in Equateur, South Kivu and Sankuru, the three most affected states, will be given the vaccine first, starting on October 2.
Last week, the first shipment of mpox vaccine arrived in the DRC capital, the epicenter of the outbreak.
100,000 doses of JYNNEOS manufactured by the Danish company, Bavarian Nordic, were donated by the European Union through its health emergency department (HERA). Another 100,000 doses were given at the end of the week.
The 50,000 doses provided by the United States are the same type of JYNNEOS vaccine.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo with more than 100 million people is at the center of an outbreak of mpox, a disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency last month.
According to the World Health Organization - WHO, almost 15,000 cases of mpox have been discovered in the Congo in the year 2024, with 500 deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that, despite the fact that the infection of the disease has been increasing rapidly, but the deaths resulting from the disease are few.
