The Director of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Haider Al-Sayeh, confirmed that the World Health Organization ranked Libya in the first place in the possibility of the spread of monkeypox and that infected cases may appear at any moment.

Al-Sayeh stressed the readiness of all the center’s health teams at the border crossings to detect suspected cases of monkeypox, pointing out to the preparation of a treatment protocol by the center’s scientific committee.

He stated that the center has taken proactive measures since the global spread of the virus by providing virus detection triggers for suspected cases, training medical teams, in addition to preparing the treatment protocol for the virus.