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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.

More severe cases could become apparent if the virus spreads to more immunologically vulnerable groups like young children, pregnant women and the immunocompromised, Smallwood was quoted as saying.

The nation has set up specialised sites to identify cases and a laboratory where test results are available within 24 hours, he said.

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Archana Srivastava sent Dr Sarfaraz from the district hospital to Bidhuna to collect the samples.

A resident of West Delhi, the patient was isolated at the Hospital around three days ago after he showed symptoms of the disease.

Though the risk of monkeypox globally and in the Region is moderate, the potential of its further international spread is real.

More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries and there had been five deaths so far as a result of the outbreak.

In addition, five deaths have also been reported from Africa, he wrote on Twitter, adding that the global health agency is increasing efforts to curb the spread of the infectious disease.

According to Swaminathan, all new Covid variants in the future will be more transmissible and capable of evading immunity that can result in increased illness and hospitalisations.

The virus is one of several types of hepatitis viruses that cause inflammation and affect your liver's ability to function. 

According to executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, the recent increase in the number of newly reported Covid-19 cases has been largely driven by Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, and by the lifting of public health and social measures.