GENEVA, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization

chief said on Friday that mpox vaccines were set to arrive in

Democratic Republic of Congo in the next few days to fight a new

strain of the virus.

"We hope to have the first delivery in the next few days,

and then it will build up," Director-General Tedros Adhanom

Ghebreyesus told reporters at a press conference. Another WHO

official said that some 230,000 mpox doses are immediately

available to be dispatched.