Monkeypox cases in Asia, Singapore and South Korea confirmed – Xinhua English.news.cn

According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 22 (Xinhua) In Southeast Asia, Singapore’s health department announced late at night on the 21st that a case of imported monkeypox was confirmed. This shows that this wave of monkeypox outbreaks has also appeared in Asia after outbreaks in non-endemic regions such as Europe and the Americas in May.

The Singapore Ministry of Health reported a case of monkeypox late at night on the 21st. It was an imported case. It was a 42-year-old British male flight attendant who traveled to Singapore with an international flight in the middle of this month. The monkeypox test was positive on the 20th and was admitted to Singapore. The disease center is currently in stable condition.

Singapore is the first Southeast Asian country to report a monkeypox case this year. According to the six regions divided by the World Health Organization, South Korea and Singapore belong to the “West Pacific Region”. Australia in the same region reported its first case of monkeypox since the outbreak of monkeypox on the 20th of last month, and a total of 8 cases have been confirmed as of the 15th of this month.

Monkeypox virus is mainly endemic in Central and West Africa, but since non-endemic countries reported monkeypox cases last month, more than 30 countries in Europe and the Americas have reported monkeypox cases, with more than 2,000 confirmed cases so far.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Seoul, June 22 (Reporter Lu Rui Sun Yiran) The Korean Centers for Disease Control said on the 22nd that the country confirmed the first case of monkeypox, and the epidemic prevention department raised the country’s monkeypox epidemic warning level to “attention”.

According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the confirmed case is a Korean who entered Germany via Incheon International Airport on the 21st. The patient had symptoms of suspected monkeypox infection at the time of entry, and was classified as a suspected case after reporting to the Department of Disease Management. After polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing and nucleic acid sequencing analysis, it was finally determined to be a confirmed case. The patient has been sent to Incheon Medical Center for treatment.