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EU buys additional vaccine doses against monkeypox
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IANS | 27 Sep, 2022
The
European Commission said it had secured over 10,000 tecovirimat
vaccines against monkeypox, despite the declining number of cases in the
European Union (EU).
The Commission on Monday said the
emergency procurement adds to the 334,000 vaccines already purchased by
the bloc, reports Xinhua news agency.
The purchase was funded by
the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) to treat
patients in the member states with immediate needs.
European
Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides said that
while the declining number of monkeypox cases in the EU is encouraging,
it does not mean that the threat has passed, and the EU should continue
to focus on preparedness.
Meanwhile, Commissioner for Crisis
Management Janez Lenarcic said: "Monkeypox is one of the priority
threats identified as part of the rescEU strategic reserves. These
batches of monkeypox antivirals will offer an additional level of
protection for our citizens.
"The stocks will be available to the Member States on an urgent-needs-basis."
Since
the start of the monkeypox outbreak, 19,827 confirmed cases have been
reported from 29 EU/EEA countries, in total 47 cases have been reported
from three Western Balkan countries and Turkey, according to the
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
The five
countries that have reported the most cases since the start of the
outbreak are: Spain (7,083), France (3,897), Germany (3,570), the
Netherlands (1,221) and Portugal (845).
Deaths have been reported from Spain (3), Belgium (1) and the Czech Republic (1).
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