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Patrick Meinhardt, AFP
Congo itself will aim to use the technology and local expertise to get its people vaccinated against Covid-19.
WHO officials say that during Congo s 2018-20 Ebola outbreak, they made the mistake of not employing local health workers.
The country has recorded over 15 000 cases and 369 deaths from the virus, and faces a second wave of infections.
When Ebola hit the city of Mbandaka in northwest Congo in 2018, health officials had to act fast - the city was connected via regular boat service to the sprawling capital Kinshasa, where the deadly virus could spread out of control.
Unlike in previous outbreaks, they had a new weapon - an experimental vaccine that could revolutionise the fight against Ebola - if they could keep the vials between minus 60-80 degrees Celsius in tropical humidity and across rough terrain. ....

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