A cargo plane carrying tens of thousands of mpox vaccines is set to arrive at the Kinshasa International Airport.
Congo is at the center of the epidemic declared a global health emergency by the WHO.
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo were expecting the arrival of the first consignment of mpox vaccines on Thursday.
At a press conference in Geneva earlier Wednesday, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed that mpox shots were due to arrive in Congo.
WHO previously declared the spread of mpox a global health emergency in July 2022 and ended that declaration in 2023.

Mpox doses to start to arrive in Congo – DW – 09