The spokesperson for the Egyptian Ministry of Health, Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, said that there are no positive cases of monkeypox in Egypt. During a Monday telephone interview with the “Masaa dmc” on dmc channel Abdel-Ghaffar stressed that the Ministry of Health and Population is following the global epidemiological situation very carefully. Abdul-Ghaffar said that the transmission of chickenpox from human to human is not easy, as this occurs through prolonged close and direct contact. Abdel-Ghaffar confirmed that regular chickenpox vaccinations proved to be 85 percent effective with monkeypox. He stressed that the monkeypox virus mutation is very weak, noting that “the precautionary measures from it are the same as those used in coronavirus.”
