Delhi reports India’s 4th Monkeypox case, health ministry calls high-level meeting | India News – Times of India
Meanwhile, India detected its fourth Monkeypox case, in Delhi, on Sunday.
According to sources, the 34-year-old man has no history of foreign travel. The infected person had attended a stag party recently in Manali, Himachal Pradesh. He has been isolated at the Lok Nayak Hospital.
His samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune on Saturday which came out positive, sources said. The close contacts of the infected have been identified and are under quarantine as per the health ministry guidelines
The previous three cases were reported from Kerala. While one of the them had returned from UAE, the other two had travelled from Dubai.
Call to action
The WHO label of Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is designed to sound an alarm that a coordinated international response is needed and could unlock funding and global efforts to collaborate on sharing vaccines and treatments.
It can be seen as an “alarm system”, a “call to action” and “last resort” measure
Under the 2005 International Health Regulations, states have a legal duty to respond promptly to a PHEIC.
Since 2009, there have been seven PHEIC declarations, including monkey pox: the 2009 H1N1 (or swine flu) pandemic, the 2014 polio declaration, the 2014 outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa, the 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic, the 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic, and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
(With inputs from agencies)
