ZAMBIA National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) Director General Professor Roma Chilengi says the Tanzanian national who tested positive for Mpox early this month is now clinically fine and discharged. Earlier this month, Health Minister Dr Elijah Muchima disclosed that the country had recorded its first Mpox case in Chitambo district, involving a Tanzanian national. In an interview, Tuesday, Chilengi said the Tanzanian man tested negative after being quarantined for over three weeks. “So, in fact, we continued to test any suspected cases and so far, we are restricted to that one case. Now that one positive case was a Tanzanian truck driver who had driven from Tanzania to Mokambo and on his way back, he got sick. And we tested...

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