Guinea will launch an Ebola vaccination drive on Tuesday. A flight delayed by a Saharan sandstorm arrived carrying thousands of jabs as West African nations fought to prevent the resurrection of the deadly virus.
The outbreak, declared last weekend, is the first region since the 2013-16 epidemic killed more than 11,300 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Due to a sandstorm, more than 11,000 vaccinated planes could not land in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, so the start of the vaccination campaign had to be delayed by one day.
A special flight carrying the Merck vaccine landed in Guinea late Monday, AFP correspondents reported.
Health officials said some of the doses would go straight to Nzerekore, the capital of the forested region of southeastern Guinea, where five people recently died from Ebola.
Inoculation is also planned in Conakry on Tuesday.
Ebola causes severe fever and, in the worst case, unstoppable bleeding. It is transmitted through close contact with body fluids and is most endangered by those who live with or care for the patient.
Not only in Guinea, the disease has recently recurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
An additional 8,700 vaccinations were set to arrive from the United States on Wednesday.
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