There have been 13 contact cases with Morocco’s singular positive monkeypox patient, announced the national coordinator of the Public Health Emergency Center at the Moroccan Ministry of Health.
Coordinator Mouad Merabet stated that all 7 detected suspect cases have tested negative for the virus, while the 13 contact cases from Morocco’s only infected patient are experiencing no symptoms, and are currently under quarantine.
In a statement to Hespress AR, the official stated that the only domestic case is of an incoming traveler, who traveled to Morocco by plane, without specifying the country of arrival.
“It was only a matter of time before we detected the first case,” said the official, emphasizing that authorities were well prepared, due to the alert after the propagation of the virus in neighboring Europe.
The coordinator said that Morocco is following the British contact tracing model, which decides contact cases into three levels of probable virus transmission.
The levels were divided into first, a high probability level, which includes those who have a high probability of infection, such as people who live with the infected individual under the same roof. The medium level concerns those accompanying the infected patient on the plane, but it does not concern all passengers, only those who were seated in close proximity to the patient.
Lastly, the third “weak probability of transmission” level concerns people he met for a short period.
The coordinator confirmed that none of the contact cases “have any symptoms that might suggest a monkeypox infection, and they are currently subject to home quarantine.”
Mrabet assured that there is no need to worry about this new virus, emphasizing it is in fact, different from COVID-19, as it is a treatable infection with a significant amount of scientific research behind it.
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