Johor monitoring Singapore’s monkeypox infection closely


A monkeypox patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during an outbreak in 1997. PHOTO: CDC/ BRIAN W.J. MAHY.

JOHOR BARU: The Johor health authorities are closely monitoring the monkeypox infection in Singapore following a case in the island republic involving a Nigerian national.

The authorities were keeping an eye on the situation across the Causeway, said State Health, Culture and Heritage Committee chairman Mohd Khuzzan Abu Bakar.

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