Despite the efforts of the Ministry of Health to conduct contract tracing since the confirmation of the first monkeypox case, the Health Minister on Wednesday acknowledged that the authorities were having difficulty establishing how the first confirmed case contracted the virus.
Speaking during his daily COVID update, Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony said that it has been a challenge trying to contact some of the names that were provided by the first monkeypox patient. However, the man’s immediate family are not showing any signs or symptoms of the virus, and it is still unknown how the man was infected, since the virus is transmitted through close contact.