WHO to send over 11,000 Ebola vaccines to Guinea amid outbreak
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The shots are expected to arrive on Sunday and the inoculation campaign could start on Monday.
More than 11,000 Ebola vaccines are expected to arrive in Guinea’s capital Conakry on Sunday after the country declared an Ebola outbreak last week. The World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, told reporters on Thursday that on top of 11,000 jabs expected to land from Geneva, a further 8,600 will be shipped from the United States. Speaking to reporters at the same press briefing, Mohamed Lamine Yansane, a senior adviser to Guinea’s health minister, said that vaccines will be immediately distributed to start the vaccination campaign as early as Monday.
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