monkeypox, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs today. Two members of the same household are being closely monitored after the virus was identified in North Wales.
Health chiefs have confirmed that one patient is undergoing treatment for the virus at a hospital in England, according to The Mirror.The news falls alongside the current Covid pandemic.Public Health Wales have tried to settle nerves by stating that the risk to the wider public is "low".It is understood that one of the patients contracted the virus overseas, before passing it to someone they live with.But Mr Hancock described it as "absolutely standard" while addressing MPs at the Health and Social Select Committee this afternoon.
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