Second Ebola vaccine to be introduced in DRC in mid-October: WHO

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are to introduce a second Ebola vaccine next month, the World Health Organization said Monday.

A health worker wearing protective suits enters an isolation pod to treat a patient at a treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC, July 13, 2019. [File Photo: AP via IC/Jerome Delay]

The announcement came as the aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) accused the WHO of rationing the first Ebola vaccine in the DRC, where more than 2,100 people have died of the deadly virus.

"The health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have announced plans to introduce a second experimental Ebola vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, from mid-October," the global health body said in a statement.