Rwanda has begun an mpox vaccination campaign with 1,000 doses of the vaccine.
Rwanda has commenced the first African administration of the mpox vaccine, with several hundred high-risk individuals vaccinated.
He added that the exercise was carried out near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the “high-risk populations” are.“We also need this vaccine to start to be manufactured in Africa, and we are working strongly and closely with our manufacturers and also our partners to have these vaccines manufactured from one of the African countries.”
The DR Congo has been the epicenter of the outbreak in Africa, with 2,912 new mpox cases and 14 deaths recorded in the last one week.This has taken the tally of cases to 6,105 and 738 deaths since the beginning of the year.
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