China News Service, July 6. According to Agence France-Presse, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the 6th local time that more than 6,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported in 58 countries and regions around the world.
Data map: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization.
"I continue to worry about the scale and spread of the virus," Tedros reportedly said.
In addition, he also said that the WHO will reconvene the monkeypox emergency committee by July 18 at the latest.
A day earlier, a WHO spokesman said 85% of monkeypox cases were in Europe, followed by Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Pacific.
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus.
In the past few weeks, several European and American countries have reported multiple clusters of monkeypox virus, most of them involving men who have sex with men.
The WHO said that monkeypox cases are often found in West and Central Africa, and it is not normal for confirmed and suspected cases reported in many countries without any travel history to monkeypox-endemic areas.