Ivory Coast rolls out Ebola jabs after first case in decades

The vaccine programme comes after the country recorded its first known case of the disease since 1994.

Ivory Coast is set to roll out vaccinations against Ebola after the country recorded its first known case of the disease since 1994, the health ministry said. “Health workers, close relatives and contacts of the victim” will be vaccinated from Monday afternoon, using 5,000 doses sent from Guinea, spokesman Germain Mahan Sehi told the AFP news agency. Ivorian health workers had previously said vaccinations of “targeted groups” had already begun on Sunday.