The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began an Ebola vaccination campaign on August 25 in the city of Beni in the North Kivu province, responding to a single confirmed case in the region. A ring vaccination approach will inoculate close contacts of the confirmed Ebola patient using an initial shipment of around 200 doses of the rVSV-ZEBOV shot. Analysis of virus samples taken from the case showed that it was genetically linked to the 2018-2020 outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. WHO; Reuters
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