New Delhi, Aug 03: India on Wednesday reported its ninth monkeypox case after a 31-year-old Nigerian woman tested positive for the disease in Delhi.
The woman has fever and skin lesions and is admitted to LNJP hospital, PTI sources said, adding her samples were sent for testing and the results came positive on Wednesday.
There is no information about her travelling abroad recently. With this case, Delhi's tally of monkeypox infections has gone up to four.
The first case in Delhi was reported on July 24. A 34-year-old man from the national capital with no history of foreign travel tested positive for monkeypox virus.
The said patient was discharged from the LNJP Hospital on Tuesday. Fourteen of his contacts, including the doctor who first treated him, were quarantined but none of them developed symptoms, officials said.
The second monkeypox case in Delhi was reported on Monday. A 35-year-old Nigerian man, who is living in Delhi, with no recent history of foreign travel tested positive for monkeypox.
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 the infection, they said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHfW) on Wednesday released a list of do's and don'ts to protect oneself from catching monkeypox.
The health ministry has recommended measures like isolating the patient and wearing face masks to slow the spread of monkeypox. It also said that anyone can catch the virus if they have had prolonged or repeated contact with an infected individual.
"Protect yourself from #Monkeypox. Know what you should and should not do to avoid contracting the disease," the official Twitter account of the Ministry tweeted.
Dos to prevent monkeypox infection: