But I remind you that the vaccine is only part of the response; the first line of defense is adherence to preventive measures,
As we don’t know yet how the disease will progress, the amount promised by the EU would not allow us to protect our entire population should the disease affect more people,
We were in talks with Bavarian Nordic … (on) the procurement of the vaccine before the emergency was declared. We anticipated it,
We would like the EU to pledge more,
There’s no proof at the moment that … the vaccines that are going to come are not enough for the time being, for the first response,
Nobody’s holding onto stocks that Africa desperately needs,
These donation efforts to the most affected countries on the African continent also contribute to our global strategy of protecting our citizens by helping to control infectious outbreaks,
They had only 22,000 doses left in their stocks,
We didn't start vaccinations yet. We'll start in a few days, if we are sure that everything is in place. End of next week vaccines will start to arrive in DRC and other countries,
We must put all this in place again and not lose from our memory what we’ve learned from past diseases, to apply it to save lives,
We know how to control mpox. And, in the European region, the steps needed to eliminate its transmission altogether,
We are not recommending mass vaccination. We are recommending to use vaccines in outbreak settings for the groups who are most at risk,
The HSC members agreed on the importance of a closely coordinated approach and the need to continue monitoring the situation very closely,
Mpox is not the new COVID,
Two years ago, we controlled mpox in Europe thanks to the direct engagement with the most affected communities,
We already know a lot about clade 2,
The combination of behavior change, non-discriminatory public health action, and vaccination against mpox facilitated controlling the outbreak,
The modes of transmission are still a bit unclear,
Are we going to go in lockdown in the WHO European region, it’s another Covid-19? The answer is clearly: ‘no’,
The emergence of a new clade of mpox, its rapid spread in eastern DRC, and the reporting of cases in several neighboring countries are very worrying,