WHO chief says mpox vaccines due to arrive in DR Congo in next few days

Reuters · 08/30 13:56
WHO chief says mpox vaccines due to arrive in DR Congo in few days

- The World Health Organization chief said on Friday that mpox vaccines were set to arrive in Democratic Republic of Congo in the few days to fight a strain of the virus.

"We hope to have the first delivery in the few days, and then it will build up," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a press conference. Another WHO official said that some 230,000 mpox doses are immediately available to be dispatched.


(Reporting by Emma Farge and Leroy Dsouza, Editing by Friederike Heine)

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