WHO: More than 6,000 monkeypox cases reported, emergency meeting set

WHO: More than 6,000 monkeypox cases reported, emergency meeting set More than 6,000 cases of monkeypox have now been reported from 58 countries in the current outbreak, the World Health Organization said. Reuters Reuters

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The U.N. agency will reconvene a meeting of the committee that will advise on declaring the outbreak a global health emergency, the WHO's highest level of alert, in the week beginning July 18 or sooner, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference from Geneva.

At its previous meeting on June 27, the committee decided that the outbreak, which has seen cases rising both in the African countries where it usually spreads and globally, was not yet a health emergency.

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