MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. Two new mpox cases have been confirmed in Russian tourists who arrived from Thailand, St. Petersburg’s regional directorate of Russia’s consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said.
"Rospotrebnadzor’s regional directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region informs that two mpox cases have been confirmed in citizens who returned from vacationing in Thailand," it said.
The two have been taken to an infectious diseases hospital, it said adding that they are in satisfactory condition.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, their contacts have been placed under medical supervision.
"The infection’s propagation has been prevented," it said but warned that risks of mpox imports still exist.
