Screenshot of Korean media reports (Yonhap News Agency)
Overseas Network, June 22. According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea confirmed its first case of monkeypox on the 22nd. The patient was a Korean who had recently entered Europe.
After entering the Incheon Airport in South Korea from Germany on the 21st, the case voluntarily reported to the South Korean CDC, and was subsequently isolated and transferred to the hospital. He stated that he had symptoms such as headache, fever, sore throat, fatigue and skin lesions since the 18th.
On May 31, the Korean Agency for Disease Control raised the warning level of monkeypox to “concern” and listed it as a Class B notifiable infectious disease on June 8. The early warning level of infectious diseases in South Korea is divided into four stages from low to high, namely concern, attention, vigilance, and serious.
Xinhua previously reported that experts from the World Health Organization said on May 30 that although hundreds of monkeypox cases have been found in many non-monkeypox-endemic countries recently, it is unlikely that monkeypox will develop into another global epidemic following the new crown. Pandemic. (Liu Qiang from Overseas Network)Return to Sohu, see more
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