Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from military stocks to contain the outbreak in Africa and assist affected countries, according to a government spokesperson.
The government will also provide flexible financial resources to the World Health Organization and support partners in Africa through the GAVI vaccination alliance.
A defense ministry official stated on Monday that it will preserve a limited amount of stock to defend travelling authorities, for example.
He noted that rearranging vaccines would require a separate decision. The World Health Organization has declared mpox a worldwide public health emergency after an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo expanded to neighboring countries and a new strain of the virus, clade Ib, raised concerns about its speed of spread.
According to a foreign ministry official, the government was looking into the quickest means to provide vaccines to the impacted countries, which included the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and neighboring East African countries.
