“Today we have the first officially confirmed case of monkeypox.
The patient is a 27-year-old young man living in Jakarta.
A positive result of his PCR test was received last night, ”the national agency ANTARA quotes him as saying.
The patient's condition reportedly does not require inpatient treatment.
Earlier, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that 35,000 cases of monkeypox had been identified in 92 countries.