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Delhi's first monkeypox patient has been discharged from the LNജJP Hospital, senior officials said on Tuesday. The 34-year-old man, a resident ofꦺ west Delhi, had tested positive last month.
Fourteen of his contacts, including the doctor who first treated him, were quarantined but none of them developed symptoms, offi💮cials said. The man was discharged on Monday night, they said. Meanwhile, the condition of the second monkeypox patient in the city, a Nigerian national, is stable.
He has fever, skin 😼eruptions and blisters and is being monitored by doctors at the Delhi government-run LNJP Hospital, the nodal hospital for treatment of tಌhe infection, they said.
The test reports of the remaining two suspected patients are awaited, they added. The countr⭕y has so far reported seven cases of monkeypox, including two from Delhi.
-With PTI Input