The federal government has confirmed six additional cases of monkeypox from the samples sent to the World Health Organisation’s laboratory in Dakar, Senegal.
The Minister of State for Health, Osagie Ehanire, said two cases each were confirmed in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom states, one each in Enugu state and Abuja.
This brings to nine the total number of monkeypox cases so far confirmed in Nigeria. Three had earlier been confirmed on October 16. Meanwhile, there are 94 suspected cases reported from 11 states, namely Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Rivers and Federal Capital Territory. Kano State also reported a suspected case of the disease after the confirmation of the new cases.
