The first shipment of 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, donated by the European Union through HERA, has arrived in Congo's capital, Kinshasa. This comes after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency.
Another 100,000 doses of the vaccine are expected to be delivered on Saturday, with a total of 380,000 doses promised by Western partners to combat the outbreaks in Congo, where the majority of cases and deaths have been reported.
