HSE to issue advice for groups at risk of monkeypox

 A health professional prepares a dose of a Monkeypox vaccine at the Edison municipal vaccination centre in Paris.

The HSE will issue advice on vaccination to groups who are most at risk from contracting monkeypox in the coming weeks, the head of Ireland's national immunisation programmes has said.

This comes as new EU figures show 13,022 cases in the region since the start of this outbreak, with 797 over the last week across 21 countries including Ireland.