Mpox vaccines to arrive in DR Congo in next few days, WHO says

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

“We hope to have the first delivery in the next few days, and then it will build up,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a press conference.

Some 230,000 mpox doses are immediately available to be dispatched, added WHO official Tim Nguyen. These doses were donated by the European Commission and Danish mpox vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic <BAVA.CO>, Nguyen said.