World Health Organization reports two new deaths monkeypox Since its last disease update on June 27, that brought the total since the start of the year to three and said the disease had spread to new areas.
The WHO said it had increased by 77 percent to 6,027 since the last report, the majority of which have been reported in the European region. However, all three deaths occurred in Africa, the report showed.
The update also revealed that more than 99 percent of the cases for which gender information was available were in men.
“The outbreak primarily affects men who have sex with men who have recently reported having sex with one or multiple male partners, which for now shows no sign of continued transmission beyond these networks. No,” it said.
The Geneva-based UN agency will reconvene a meeting of the advising committee to declare the outbreak a global health emergency, the WHO’s highest level of alert, in the week beginning on or before July 18, its director-general said on Wednesday. Told.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is also due to meet with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday morning, a WHO spokesman confirmed without giving details. WHO data shows that 802 cases have been reported in Spain so far.