A government spokeswoman announced on Monday that Germany would provide 100,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from its military stockpile in order to aid in the short-term containment of the outbreak on the African continent and to aid the affected countries.
The spokesperson went on to say that the government will support its partners in Africa through the GAVI vaccination alliance and will supply the World Health Organization with flexible funding resources through a variety of tools to fight mumps.
About 117,000 doses of Jynneos, which Berlin acquired in 2022, are being stocked by the German army.
For example, it will maintain a minimum level of supplies to safeguard traveling authorities, according to a spokesman for the defense ministry on Monday. It would be necessary to make a different choice when it comes to reordering vaccines, he added.
The World Health Organization has deemed the mpox pandemic a worldwide public health emergency due to the spread of the virus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to neighboring countries and the uncertainty surrounding the rate of transmission of a novel strain of the virus known as clade Ib.
A spokesman for the foreign ministry stated that the government was considering the quickest route to deliver the vaccines to the impacted nations, which included Burundi and other neighboring countries in East Africa in addition to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(Reuters)
