The Centre on Sunday held a high-level review meeting after a 34-year-old man from the national capital with no history of foreign travel tested positiv꧂e for the monkeypox virus, making it the fourth case of the disease reported 𝔍in India.
Sources ꦏsaid the meeting was chaired by the Directorate General of Health Sciences (DGHS🧜) and attended by officials from the Health ministry, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and ICMR among others.
The new patient who 🤪is prese𝄹ntly recovering at a designated isolation centre at the Lok Nayak Hospital had attended a stag party in Manali in Himachal Pradesh recently, official sources told PTI.
A resident of West Delhi, the pat🐽ient was isolated at the Hospital around three days ago after he showed symptoms of the disease.
His samples were sent to the National Institute o🦄f Virology (NIV) P🐬une on Saturday which came out positive, Union Health Ministry officials said.
The c🍰lose contacts of the case have been identified and are under quarantine as per the Ministry of Health's guidelines," the hea🌌lth ministry said in a statement.
Three cases of monkeypox had eꦆarlier been reported from Kerala.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday declared monkeypox a global pub☂lic health emergency of 🐲international concern.
(With PTI inputs)
