China News Service, June 22. According to Agence France-Presse, on the 21st local time, the French Ministry of Health reported that 277 cases of monkeypox have been found in France, including the first female case of the monkeypox virus in the country.

  The French Ministry of Health said it was investigating how the female case contracted monkeypox.

The monkeypox cases previously recorded in France were all male.

  According to reports, the number of monkeypox cases in France has increased rapidly recently, but no one has died from monkeypox.