On Oct. 13, 2021, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that vaccination had begun in the Democratic Republic of the Congoﾒs North Kivu Province where a case was confirmed on 8 October.

The confirmed case was a two-year old boy who died on 6 October in a local health facility. He lived in the same community where three members of the same family died in September after experiencing Ebola-like symptoms.