A 40-year-old man from Telangana’s Kamareddy district was admitted to the isolation ward designated for suspected cases of monkeypox at Government Fever Hospital in Hyderabad Sunday.
He returned home from Kuwait on July 6 and started to show symptoms on Saturday. As his test results are awaited, health officials have traced six of his contacts and kept them under observation as they do not have any symptoms yet.
The World Health Organisation had declared Monkeypox as a public health emergency of international concern. So far, four cases have been confirmed in India, of which three have been detected in Kerala and one in Delhi.
