DR Congo introduces new Ebola vaccine

Health authorities in Eastern Congo have introduced a new Ebola vaccine to help combat the world’s second-worst outbreak of the virus on record.

The new vaccine is said to have passed clinical trials but has never been tested in a real-world setting.

It will be administered to 50,000 people in Goma, a city of two million on the Rwandan border.

Congo’s epidemic has infected over 3,000 people and killed nearly 2,200 people, however, the number of reported new infections has fallen steeply since June.