New Delhi:  A women’s (31 years) tested positive for Monkeypox in new Delhi on Wednesday. This is the first case of the disease among women in the country. A Nigerian woman who tested positive for monkeypox has fever and skin lesions and is admitted to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital. Out of the total of nine cases, four cases are from Delhi while the remaining five have been reported from Kerala. 

India has reported 9 Monkeypox cases and approximately 100 samples have been tested till August 2, said Dr Pragya Yadav Senior Scientist ICMR-NIV, Pune. Earlier on Tuesday, another 35-year-old Nigerian man living in Delhi, with no recent travel history, tested positive for monkeypox. The patient is admitted to Lok Nayak Jaiprakash hospital which comes under the government of Delhi.

In the wake of an increase in the number of Monkeypox cases in the country, isolation rooms have been made operational for the treatment of such infections in three central government hospitals, according to sources. "The isolation rooms for the treatment of Monkeypox patients are operational in three major central government hospitals as Safdarjang hospital, RML hospital and Lady Hardinge hospital," official sources told ANI.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday, in the wake of the rising cases of Monkeypox in the country, assured citizens not to panic and said that an awareness campaign is being run in collaboration with the state governments to prevent the spread of the infection. Mandaviya informed that on the basis of the observations of the task force, we will assess and study the further action to be taken and if the state government of Kerala needs any kind of help from the Central government, it will be given.