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Democratic Republic of the Congo: DRC hopes to receive mpox vaccines to address health emergency next week

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Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo - August 19, 2024

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hopes to receive vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak by next week, the Congolese health minister said on Monday.

More than 16,000 mpox cases have been confirmed in the country and roughly 570 deaths, with the virus spreading in some 17 African countries, the DRC's health minister Samuel Roger Kamba told reporters.

The mortality of the virus in the DRC is currently at around 3.4 per cent, he added.

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