{"id":185289,"date":"2024-11-25T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/namibia-no-mpox-vaccines-in-namibia-as-angola-reports-first-case\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T10:38:49","slug":"namibia-no-mpox-vaccines-in-namibia-as-angola-reports-first-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/namibia-no-mpox-vaccines-in-namibia-as-angola-reports-first-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: No Mpox Vaccines in Namibia As Angola Reports First Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Amid reports of Angola&#8217;s first confirmed case of mpox in its capital, Luanda, the Namibian government says the country currently has no vaccines for the viral disease.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This comes as cross-border migration continues at the Oshikango border, with citizens travelling back and forth between the two countries daily for trade and familial connections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Ministry of Health and Social Services executive director Ben Nangombe has confirmed the vaccine shortage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">&#8220;We do not have mpox vaccines in Namibia yet&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411250035.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid reports of Angola&#8217;s first confirmed case of mpox in its capital, Luanda, the Namibian government says the country currently has no vaccines for the viral disease. This comes as cross-border migration continues at the Oshikango border, with citizens travelling back and forth between the two countries daily for trade and familial connections. Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660511:a2fbe9a6b79582d5da80f52d83ff2eda:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,6683,49242,4706,257,8327,254,14034],"class_list":["post-185289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-case","tag-mpox","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vaccines"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660511:a2fbe9a6b79582d5da80f52d83ff2eda:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}