{"id":234168,"date":"2022-08-15T19:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/minister-joe-phaahla-announces-fourth-monkeypox-case-in-south-africa?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-08-15T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:46:43","slug":"minister-joe-phaahla-announces-fourth-monkeypox-case-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/minister-joe-phaahla-announces-fourth-monkeypox-case-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Joe Phaahla announces fourth Monkeypox case in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/1407a96a5763133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/1407a96a5763133\" alt=\"Republic of South Africa, Department of Health\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/1407a96a5763133\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=211969&amp;press_source=Republic of South Africa, Department of Health\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla would like to announce that a fourth case of&nbsp;Monkeypox has been identified through laboratory testing in a 28-year old male from the&nbsp;Western Cape Province. The patient has travel history to Spain and returned to South Africa&nbsp;on the second week of August 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was performed in a private pathology laboratory and&nbsp;the samples were submitted to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) for&nbsp;sequencing analysis. Public health response measures to prevent the spread of the infection,&nbsp;including contact tracing have been instituted.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth case follows three unlinked laboratory-confirmed Monkeypox cases that were&nbsp;reported from Gauteng, Western Cape and Limpopo provinces respectively. These cases&nbsp;were reported in males aged 30, 32 and 42-years who have since completed self-isolation and&nbsp;monitoring period without reported further symptoms and health complications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Minister Phaahla will, on Friday this week provide more details on the government`s response&nbsp;to Monkeypox during the planned media briefing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Republic of South Africa, Department of Health.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla would like to announce that a fourth case of&nbsp;Monkeypox has been identified through laboratory testing in a 28-year old male from the&nbsp;Western Cape Province. The patient has travel history to Spain and returned to South Africa&nbsp;on the second week of August 2022.&nbsp; A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-234168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/minister-joe-phaahla-announces-fourth-monkeypox-case-in-south-africa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}