treatment – A vaccination campaign should begin at the end of the month according to the government
Good news, in the epicenter of the epidemic. The first vaccines against MPOX, donated by the European Union and manufactured by a Danish laboratory, arrived Thursday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is to receive a total of 200,000 doses this week.
“The vaccines have arrived in the DRC. They are now on their way to storage areas and the vaccination campaign should begin at the end of the month according to the Congolese government,” Laurent Muschel, director of the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) set up during the Covid-19 pandemic, confirmed to AFP.
More than 500,000 doses donated by the EU and Member States
Congolese Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba was present. According to Laurent Muschel, also at the airport on Thursday, more than 560,000 doses in total will be donated by the EU and its member states but “we hope there will be even more,” he said. These donations will be for the DRC as well as other countries on the continent infected by the virus.
This vaccine, the only one approved at this stage in Europe and the United States, is only intended for adults. Trials are currently being conducted for potential use on children over twelve years old.
More than 20,000 people infected in the DRC since January
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