Vaccine Ready…

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The World Health Organization Chief said that Monkeyfox (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, Nguyen said.The WHO has said that its partners can start buying mpox vaccines before they are approved by the U.N. health agency, lifting its usual rules in a bid to get inoculations to Africa faster.

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