The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported this Saturday on its official website that the fourth case of monkeypox in the country had been identified.

According to the report, it is a Cuban health worker, resident in the province of Cienfuegos, who had direct contact with the third case reported in Cuba with monkeypox.

It specifies that the citizen began on September 30 with skin lesions suggestive of the disease, for which a sample was taken and confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory of the Pedro Kouri Institute (IPK) this Saturday.

The patient was already in strict isolation for being direct contact, so no new contacts are declared. He is evolving favorably and without complications.

The rest of the isolated contacts for the third case remain asymptomatic on the eighth day of surveillance.