Paris monkeypox vaccine rollout gains momentum

France24 says Despite a shortage of healthcare professionals to administer shots, a monkeypox vaccine campaign is gaining momentum in the Paris region, which has been the epicentre of France’s outbreak. France has the fifth-highest number of monkeypox cases worldwide – nearly 2,000, the national health authorities said on Friday.

The rising cases have piled pressure on authorities to roll out doses of a smallpox vaccine that has been found to protect against monkeypox. 

Amélie Verdier, the head of Paris’ regional health agency, told AFP that since July 8, 25 new monkeypox vaccination centers have opened in the region, including the capital – 18 of them in the city itself.

More than 8,000 injections had been administered in the region as of Friday, representing 70 percent of all vaccinations in France. Around 5,000 of those injections were carried out just last week.

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