Most of the cases, as specified, in the state of California - 40 cases and in the state of New York - 22 cases of infection.

Earlier it became known that the US authorities increased the order of the vaccine from the Danish pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic against monkeypox to 1.9 million units.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing that the total number of people infected with monkeypox in the current outbreak has exceeded 1,000.