India Monkeypox guidelines require 21-day isolation |
A 21-day isolation, wearing a mask, following hand hygiene, keeping lesions fully covered, and waiting for those to fully heal are among the guidelines by the Indian government for Monkeypox patients and their contacts. The national capital has reported one confirmed case of Monkeypox, taking the total number of such patients in the country to four. Till now, 14 contacts of Delhi`s first monkeypox patient have been identified and none of them has shown symptoms, sources said, adding one of the contacts had complained of body ache but he is doing fine now and has no symptoms. Another suspected case has been admitted to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital in Delhi and the samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune. Officials, however, said there is no need to panic. One has to stay in isolation for 21 days from the last contact with a monkeypox patient or their contaminated materials, they said. Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis – that gets transmitted to humans from animals – with symptoms similar to those seen in smallpox patients, but clinically less severe.
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