Rwanda has begun administering vaccine doses against the Marburg virus to stem the outbreak, where it has so far killed 12 people.

“The vaccination is starting today immediately,” Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana said at a news conference in the capital Kigali.

the vaccinations will be focused on the “most at risk, most exposed healthcare workers working in treatment centres, in the hospitals, in ICU, in emergency, but also the close contacts of the confirmed cases.”

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