Cambodia to deport recovered Nigerian monkeypox patient, says immigration official

A colourised transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue). - AP

PHNOM PENH, Aug 7 (Xinhua): Cambodia will deport the recovered monkeypox patient, Osmond Chihazirim Nzerem, to his birth country Nigeria and ban him from re-entering the kingdom for three years, an immigration department official said on Sunday.

The 27-year-old Nigerian man, who previously fled from neighboring Thailand despite a positive test result for monkeypox, was arrested by Cambodian authorities in the capital Phnom Penh on July 23 and sent to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital for treatment.