Ap and Afp
Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 1, 2022, p. eleven
New York., New York City officials yesterday declared a public health emergency due to the spread of the monkeypox virus, describing the city as the epicenter
of the outbreak.
The mayor, Eric Adams, and the Health Commissioner, Ashwin Vasan, declared that 150,000 inhabitants could be in danger of being infected. The measure will allow the authorities to issue emergency orders in accordance with the local health code and modify clauses of that regulation to launch actions aimed at slowing down infections.
In the past two days, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a statewide disaster emergency declaration and the state health department listed monkeypox as a imminent threat to public health
.
The state accumulated 1,345 cases as of Friday, according to information compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). California follows with the most cases: 799.
We will continue to work with our federal partners to ensure more doses arrive as quickly as possible when they become available.
Adams and Vasan stated in a statement. This outbreak must be faced with urgency, measures and resources, on a national and global scale, and this approach to public health red lights reflects the seriousness of the moment
.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a global health emergency on July 23; The mayor of San Francisco announced last Thursday a state of emergency due to the increase in cases.
The rare disease remained relatively isolated for decades in parts of central and western Africa with no known cause of large outbreaks outside the continent or wide spread among people until May, when authorities detected dozens of cases in Europe. , North America and other latitudes. Since May, there have been more than 22,000 cases of monkeypox in nearly 80 countries and 75 deaths possibly linked to the disease in Africa, mostly in Nigeria and the Congo.
Brazil and Spain reported on Friday on deaths related to the pathology, the first recorded outside Africa.
On the other hand, cases of monkeypox infections rose to 282 in Peru 34 days after the first case was registered in Lima, reported the Ministry of Health.
