The vaccine alliance Gavi orders 500 doses of Ebola vaccine in order to have a stock to deal with a new wave of the disease.
More than 300 000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in the neighboring countries received a dose of the Ebola vaccine, Ervebo, developped by the Merck Laboratory. As a reminder, this vaccine is pre-qualify by the World Health Organization in November 2019 and is immediately approved by the main Health Agencies.
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This vaccine proved its worth when the epidemic raged in the province of North-Kivu and Ituri until last June.
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