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13 October 2021

Brazzaville/Kinshasa – Ebola vaccination began today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu Province where a Ebola case was confirmed on 8 October.

People at high risk for contracting ebola  including contacts of the confirmed ebola case and first responders.

WHO will be vaccinating people who were expose to Ebola the health authorities move to curb the spread of Ebola .

The confirmed Ebola case was a two-year old boy who died from Ebola on 6 October 2021 in a local health facility. He lived in the same community where three members of the same family died in September after experiencing Ebola-like symptoms.

About 1000 doses of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine and other medical supplies were delivered from the capital Kinshasa to Goma city in North Kivu and around 200 doses were sent onward to Beni city, which is near the Butsili health area where the confirmed ebola case was detected.

Ebola Vaccinators are using the “ring vaccination” approach, where Ebola contacts and contacts of contacts are vaccinated. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 12 000 Ebola vaccine doses in Kinshasa that can be deployed if necessary.