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A suspected monkeypox case has emerged in a passenger who arrived from Sharjah at the Karachi airport on Saturday night.
As per the airport sources, a passenger identified as Javed Ahmed, arriving from Sharjah, has tested positive for symptoms of monkeypox during medical screening.
Ahmed, a resident of Rajanpur, was immediately moved to an isolation ward for precautionary measures.
Medical authorities in Karachi consider the Monkeypox case alarming and are taking stringent precautions.
So far five confirmed cases of Monkeypox have been reported in Pakistan.
Pakistan has taken precautions to tackle the virus and put in place a strict screening system at airports after it emerged that all the patients affected by mpox had reportedly returned from other countries.
Laboratories were allocated for diagnosis in all provinces and the federal capital, an official said. The official said cases were reported from travellers from Africa, America, and the Gulf countries.
Mpox, formerly called monkeypox, can spread through close contact and the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the recent outbreak of the disease as a public health emergency of international concern on August 14.
