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Mpox vaccines administered in Rwanda, first in Africa
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9/21/2024
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The vaccination campaign against Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo is to begin on
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October 2nd. The country, at the epicentre of the outbreak, registered more than 24,000 cases.
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Meanwhile, vaccination has already begun in neighbouring Rwanda. It started with 1,000
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doses it obtained from Nigeria under an agreement between the two countries.
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Clément Diroma has the details.
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Hundreds of Rwandans have become the first on the African continent to receive
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monkeypox vaccine since last Tuesday, although authorities only announced the launch of this
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programme later this week. Kigali received 1,000 doses as part of an agreement with Nigeria.
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Seven border districts with DR Congo are targeted and vaccinations are expected to
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continue in the coming days. Rwanda has so far detected only a handful of cases of the virus,
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but the director of Africa CDC stated that the epidemic is not under control on the continent
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and neighbouring countries of DR Congo, where the virus has already claimed more than 700 lives,
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are concerned. In Uganda, authorities reported a sharp increase in cases, which have doubled
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in the last eight days with around 20 confirmed. Half of these cases were detected in densely
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populated capital Kampala, but the Ministry of Health there claims to have the situation
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under control.
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