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This is, on one hand, encouraging but not enough on the other hand to contain the spreading of the #Ebola virus. There is a deep lack of a BCC strategy to gain the trust of communities so far. Together we can stop the virus and this passes through sensitization on the ground.

While health workers are certainly highly exposed and therefore require vaccination in priority, the patients lying in the hopsitals and health centers with no isolation capacities are at least as exposed to nosocomial transmission of #Ebola. Are these people also vaccinated?

#DRC In the light of the discovery of a 2nd Ebola case in Goma WHO boss @DrTedros outlines the anticipatory steps taken. Goma is a hub for multiple locations & has been planning & organising for Ebola for a while.https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1156472490237059073 …

The vaccination also needed for the countries most visited like Ethiopia, because of high movement of different countries citizens both in and out via airports, borders etc

So glad to hear this! Has violence against them reduced? Are they safer? Thank you for all of the work you are doing!

To vaccinate healtworkers is good but not enough, their homemates ( wife, husbands, children...) should be also vccinated because they are also at high risk to be contaminated