Monkeypox: Tamil Nadu monitoring state borders with Kerala

By a Staff Reporter: The monkeypox patient from Kerala is a 35-year-old male who returned from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and was hospitalised after developing symptoms, eventually being discovered infected with the virus.

Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian said on Saturday that his administration is monitoring the state's borders with Kerala at 13 checkpoints after India reported the first case of monkeypox in Kerala.

At the aftermath of the monkeypox outbreak, Subramanian and Tamil Nadu health secretary Senthil Kumar examined the screening of international travellers in Chennai. "At 13 checkpoints, we have begun to monitor the state's borders with Kerala." We're already
holding huge fever screening camps, and we've added monkeypox screening to the mix. "Anyone discovered with symptoms will be watched," said Tamil Nadu's health minister, according to news agency ANI.

The state health minister stated that no monkeypox cases had been discovered in Tamil Nadu. "At the Chennai airport, 2% of passengers are randomly searched." Every day, 30-40 international planes with 5,000-9,000 people arrive. We received 531 flights with 1,00,153 passengers in the previous 14 days. "Of them, 39 people have Covid and are now quarantined at home," Subramanian said to reporters.