Highlights
- Since the last situation report published on 1 December, 1517 new cases (1.9% increase in total cases) and 10 new deaths have been reported.
- Mpox has been endorsed as a new name for monkeypox disease. The new name has been included as a synonym in ICD-10 on 2 December 2022 and will be included in ICD-11 from January 2023.
- The call for expressions of interest for countries to receive a donation of tecovirimat for Emergency Use under the MEURI framework V1.0 closed on 6 December 2022. A total of 20 countries from four regions have submitted expressions of interest for the program.
- Multi-disciplinary country support missions to Nigeria and the Central Africa Republic have been conducted by WHO to lend support to optimizing surveillance and other areas of monkeypox response.
Source: World Health Organization