{"id":10741,"date":"2022-09-16T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=10741"},"modified":"2022-09-16T14:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:17:33","slug":"china-records-first-monkeypox-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/china-records-first-monkeypox-case\/","title":{"rendered":"China records first monkeypox case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China records first monkeypox case. China recorded its first case of monkeypox on Friday in a person who had recently entered the country, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities in the southwestern city of Chongqing said the person displayed symptoms while undergoing quarantine for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Under China s zero-Covid policy, people entering the country must typically complete between one and two weeks of isolation on arrival.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read mnore:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/us-may-expand-monkeypox-vaccine-eligibility-to-men-with-hiv.html\">US may expand monkeypox vaccine eligibility to men with HIV<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The monkeypox patient was diagnosed after developing symptoms including a skin rash, the city health commission said in a report, categorising the case as an &#8220;imported infection&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The patient &#8220;is undergoing centralised isolation at a designated hospital and is in a stable condition&#8221;, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Because the patient had been immediately isolated upon entering the city, &#8220;there are no traces of social transmission, and the risk of transmission is low&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_Kong\">Hong Kong<\/a> logged its first monkeypox case in a 30-year-old man who showed symptoms while undergoing the city s three-day Covid quarantine period for arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>The patient had no contact with the community, according to a health official, who said the risk of Hong Kongers getting infected was &#8220;very low&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China records first monkeypox case. China recorded its first case of monkeypox on Friday in a person who had recently entered the country, officials said. Health authorities in the southwestern city of Chongqing said the person displayed symptoms while undergoing quarantine for Covid-19. Under China s zero-Covid policy, people entering the country must typically complete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[470,2939,623],"class_list":["post-10741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-china","tag-hong-kong","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}