French health authorities on Thursday reported 33 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the country.
As of June 1, 24 cases were reported in the Paris region of Ile-de-France, two in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, four in Occitanie, and one each in Haut-de-France, Centre-Val de Loire, and Normandy, the French Public Health Agency said in a statement.
The figure has nearly doubled since the last update on Monday with 17 cases.
France’s Health Minister, Brigitte Bourguignon, said last week that authorities were not expecting an “outbreak” of the disease and that France had sufficient stocks of vaccine for contact cases.
The country’s first monkeypox case was identified on May 20 in a 29-year-old man in the Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris.
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