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WHO has recommended all countries detect and remove these products from circulation to prevent further harm to patients.

WHO data says that every year around a quarter of global burden of diseases is directly linked to the environmental causes.

"(Covid-19) pandemic is not over, but the end is in sight ... Being able to see the end does not mean we are at the end," WHO chief.

Tedros likened the pandemic response to a marathon race.

Omicron remains the dominant variant, with the BA.5 sub-variant representing more than 90% of sequences shared with the WHO.

In total, some 41600 infections and 12 deaths have been reported to the WHO from 96 countries since the beginning of the year.

Earlier a monkeypox outbreak in the US was linked to prairie pet dogs, but no human to animal transmission was reported.

In almost every country, the gap between rich and poor is getting wider and the global cost of living crisis is driving more people into poverty, Tedros said.

The foreign national was admitted two days ago to the LNJP hospital which has been designated by the government as the nodal hospital for treatment of the infection.

At the time, five monkeypox-related deaths were reported from Africa.

In order to deal with the situation, Odisha government has already decided to keep a tab on foreign returnees as part of its measures to contain its spread. 

The WHO has issued several advisory for people to reduce the transmission of the virus from suggesting gay men at risk to reduce sexual partners to people with symptoms to adopt social distancing. Small children, pregnant women are also are greater risk due to the disease.

Currently, the premier health institute is prepared with a separate isolation ward and four ICU beds for the virus.

While mass vaccination is not recommended at this time, the WHO recommends vaccine for those exposed to someone with monkeypox and those at high risk of exposure including health workers and lab workers as well as those with multiple sexual partners.

At a press briefing in Geneva, Lewis said that "right strategies in the right groups" are key to contain the outbreak.