The amount of monkeypox vaccine people will be given is being cut to ensure more people can get it, the Welsh Government has said. Instead of a 0.5ml dose, people will get 0.1ml allowing a five-fold increase in people able to be vaccinated
The Welsh Government's health minister has said that the "fractional dosing" does not compromise protection and clinical results show "it provides a near-identical immune response in patients". You can read the current approach to monkeypox vaccination here. As of August 4, Public Health Wales confirmed there had been 37 cases here.
In a statement, she said: "Fractional dosing is a safe and clinically-approved approach, which has been commonly used in other worldwide outbreaks when vaccine supplies are constrained."
