The NICD said no secondary cases have been linked to the three laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases in South Africa.

City of Tshwane MMC for Health, Rina Marx has labelled reports of cholera and pink eye outbreaks as fake news.

Limpopo Health MEC, Dr Phophi Ramathuba has called for calm after the province reported its first case of Monkeypox on Sunday.

The NICD traced and monitored 11 close contacts of the country’s two confirmed monkeypox cases. None of them tested positive, as of 7 July.

The Western Cape government and City of Cape Town indicated that they are ready to respond to any further monkeypox cases.

Another case of monkeypox has been detected in South Africa, said the department of health on Tuesday. The patient has no travel history.

The World Health Organisation usually decides what weight to give a disease whenever there is an outbreak in the world.

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‘There are other cases in South Africa. How many? We can’t say,’ said the NICD. Contact tracing is underway after the first monkeypox case was confirmed in SA.

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The Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, said the 30-year-old male patient could not have picked up the infection outside the country.

The WHO has received 780 reports of laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases from 13 May to 2 June in 27 non-endemic countries.

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Experts remain fairly calm about the prospect of Monkeypox reaching South Africa, playing down the need for lockdown restrictions.

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‘We know monkeypox can spread when there is close contact with the lesions of someone who is infected, and it looks like sexual contact has now amplified that transmission.’

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The NICD is monitoring the current monkeypox outbreak and said no cases have been detected in South Africa. Since 13 May, 145 cases have been detected in 15 countries.

The Foreign Press Association Africa has slammed western media for using images of black people on Monkeypox stories about the outbreak.

The UK is reportedly seeing daily infections of the monkeypox virus that are not connected to West Africa travel, revealed a health official.