The European Union has secured an additional 170,920 doses of monkeypox vaccine. "Although fortunately we are seeing downward trends, we will not stop preparing for what may be to come," EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said in Prague on Wednesday. Overall, the new EU authority Hera has now secured more than 330,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine from the company Bavarian Nordic to prevent health crises. According to the EU Commission, the new cans should be able to be delivered before the end of the year.

According to the EU health authority ECDC, as of September 1, there were 18,463 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the 27 EU countries as well as in Norway and Iceland.

Communication from the EU Commission RKI on monkeypox