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Week after India's first monkeypox case, global numbers rise further

The government has issued guidelines for dealing with the illness

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Sachin P Mampatta Mumbai
A week after a person was first detected with monkeypox in India, global numbers have risen further, including another case detected in India.

The total number of daily cases as of 20th July was 555, according to data collated by OurWorldInData.org based on work done by Edouard Mathieu, Saloni Dattani, Hannah Ritchie, Fiona Spooner and Max Roser.  The global numbers represent a 208 per cent increase from a month ago, when daily numbers were close to 180 on a seven-day moving average basis as seen in chart 1.  A second case was reportedly detected on Monday, after the first one

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