WHO Begins Ebola Vaccination in DRC’s Kasai Province Amid New Outbreak.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun vaccinating front-line health workers and contacts of infected individuals in response to a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kasai Province.

An initial four hundred doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine have been delivered to Bulape, the epicentre of the outbreak, even as the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision also approved the shipment of an additional forty-five thousand doses to help contain the spread.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization Programme Area Manager, Patrick Otim warned that the outbreak could expand, especially after a case was confirmed seventy kilometers from Bulape.