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Africa To Receive First Batch Of Monkeypox Vaccine From South Korea
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed the continent has received its first donation of monkeypox vaccine from South Korea. The first batch of 50,000 doses would be given to health workers and people living in the hardest-hit areas like Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. There have been…
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Are Rich Countries Planning To Hoard Monkeypox Vaccine?
The acting director of Africa’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has expressed worries that rich countries might refuse to share vaccines as the monkeypox outbreak intensifies. Since early May, over 200 suspected and confirmed cases of the virus were detected in 12 African countries where the disease is endemic and about 17 European countries,…