Monkeypox Cases On the Rise, 4th Case Reported from Delhi

NEW DELHI: Delhi today reported its first monkeypox case as a 31-year-old man with no foreign travel history was diagnosed with the disease.

The 31-year-old resident of west Delhi has been hospitalised.

This is the fourth monkeypox case reported in India with the previous three cases being reported from Kerala.

The man had attended a party in Manali in Himachal Pradesh, news agency PTI reported citing sources.

On Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox as a global public health emergency.

Elaborating on the virus - which has now spread to 75 countries and has reported more than 17,000 cases across the world, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that there is a "clear risk of further international spread" although the risk of interference with global traffic remains "low at the moment".

"So in short, we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little and which meets the criteria in the International Health Regulations," Ghebreyesus added, while speaking at the UN health agency's press briefing.

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