The World Health Organization says it has begun vaccinating frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasai Province, where an outbreak has been declared.

The WHO said an initial 400 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine from the country's stockpile of 2000 doses have been delivered to Bulape, which is the outbreak's epicentre.

The International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision has approved the dispatch of some 45,000 additional Ebola vaccine doses to Congo, the organisation said on Sunday.

The outbreak, the country's first in three years, was declared in early September. Congo's dense tropical forests are a natural reservoir for the Ebola virus, which causes fever, body aches, and diarrhoea, and can linger in

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