Delhi's first monkeypox patient has been discharged from the LNJP Hospital, senior officials said on Tuesday. The 34-year-old man, a resident of 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, officials 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 go༺vernment-run LNJP Hospital, the nodal hospital for treatment of the infecti♔on, they said.
The test reports of the remaining two suspected patients are awaited, they added. The country has so far reported seven cases of monkeypox, includinཧg two from Delhi.
-With PTI Input
