The UK Health Security Agency has issued new advice regarding monkeypox ahead of an update on the number of cases being given later today (Monday).
Contacts of monkeypox cases at high risk of having caught the infection should now self-isolate for 21 days, the latest government agency's new guidance says. The advice applies to people who have had “unprotected direct contact or high-risk environmental contact” should isolate for three weeks.
This includes no travel, providing details for contact tracing and avoiding direct contact with immunosuppressed people, pregnant women and children under 12. Those who are considered at high risk of having caught monkeypox may have had household contact, sexual contact, or have changed an infected person’s bedding without wearing appropriate PPE.
