Anutin said the monitoring and control of monkeypox will be taken over by the ministry’s emergency operations centre.
Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul called the meeting after the World Health Organisation on Saturday declared monkeypox a global health emergency.
Anutin said health chiefs at the meeting believed the Nigerian national had not spread the virus to others over the past month, so Thailand was still safe. It also assured the meeting that the country had sufficient medicine and facilities to treat patients in the event of a monkeypox outbreak. “Measures to lower risk from Covid can also be used , including wearing masks, washing hands with alcohol gel and social distancing, as well as avoiding crowded areas.”
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