Lockdown 2024 Monkeypox Cases. The public health emergency was declared by the group’s director general, dr tedros adhanom ghebreyesus. The outbreak comes as a new strain is identified,.

That’s right — the who declared a public health emergency of international concern (pheic) in july 2022 in response to a significant and unusual outbreak of mpox. Levels of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, in the democratic republic of congo have reached more than 14,000 reported cases and 511 deaths, and it has.