Lithuania to receive 700 monkeypox vaccine doses shortly

Some 700 monkeypox vaccine doses will arrive in Lithuania in the coming weeks, Deputy Health Minister Ausra Bilotiene Motiejuniene said on Tuesday.

"[The jabs] should reach Lithuania in two or three weeks," she told reporters.

The European Union said last week that it had purchased nearly 110,000 monkeypox vaccine doses to contain the outbreak of the disease.

The Health Ministry has told BNS that 700 of the doses should come to Lithuania.