Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, a spokesman for the Ministry of the health And the population, that no positive cases of monkeypox have been proven in Egypt so far.
Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, told “The Seventh Day”, that an integrated guideline for the disease was issued, updated according to the developments of the global and regional epidemiological situation and published in all governorates.
He explained that all directorates of health affairs were trained on the guideline, activating the rapid response team at the central level, activating disease monitoring at all ports of entry and anticipating the arrival of any suspected cases, to take the necessary measures for isolation and refer them to the nearest fever hospital, and to provide the necessary reagents to examine cases in the central laboratories of the Ministry the health.
