“We have 20 cases in Italy.
Of these, 19 are stories of people who have traveled where chains of contact have been identified.
And, perhaps - this has not yet been confirmed - only in one case we are talking about secondary infection, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said earlier that more than 550 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in 30 countries around the world.
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control of Nigeria reported the first death from monkeypox.
Hans Kluge, head of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, noted WHO doubts that the spread of monkeypox among humans can be completely contained.