NEW DELHI, Sept 8: India reported Sunday that it had put a "suspected mpox case" into isolation, assuring that the world's most populous nation had "robust measures" in place, the health ministry said in a statement.
There have been no confirmed cases of mpox in India, a country of 1.4 billion people.
"A young male patient, who recently travelled from a country currently experiencing mpox transmission, has been identified as a suspect case of mpox," the health ministry said in a statement.
"The patient has been isolated in a designated hospital and is currently stable," it said, adding the samples "are being tested to confirm the presence of mpox".
It gave no further details of where he may have contracted it.
"There is no cause of any undue concern," it added. —AFP
