99,100 doses of the empx vaccine have landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo it is the first shipment to Kickstart the vaccine campaign with the second expected on Saturday the European union health authority which donated the doses says they need to be distributed fast according to our data the vaccines are effective but as we saw during the covid-19 crisis there are many mutations of the virus the more people are contaminated the greater the chance mutation so we need to act quickly over 19,000 cases and more than 650 deaths have been reported since the start of the year and 3 weeks ago the World Health Organization declared it a global emergency the viral illness which can cause a fever muscle aches and boil like skin lesions is transmitted to humans by infected animals but can be passed from Human to human through close physical contact and it is now present in 16 countries on the African continent the last Global embox outbreak was in 2022 which prompted a subsequent vaccine drive now leaders are optimistic it will prove as effective with this new more contagious and deadlier strain Cloud one among the measures to respond to empo we need vaccines vaccines that have proved their worth because they've already been used on a massive scale since 2022 more than 400,000 people have already been vaccinated in Europe and in the US some 380,000 doses have been promised by Western Partners falling significantly short of the 3 million doses authorities say are required to end the outbreak in the Congo