Adar meets Mandaviya, India has 8 Monkeypox cases

August 02, 2022 16:05

SII CEO Adar Poonawalla meets Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. "My meeting went well like always. All preparations for the vaccine are being done; I briefed the minister on this. We are researching on the vaccine for Monkeypox and if there's a need for it."

This comes even as a 35-year-old man of African origin with no recent history of foreign travel has tested positive for monkeypox in Delhi, making it the country's eighth case of the infection and the city's third, official sources said on Tuesday.

The man was admitted to the Delhi government-run LNJP Hospital on Monday, they said. The first Monkeypox patient was discharged on Monday night.

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