Tokyo, July 25 (UNI/Xinhua) Japan on Monday issued a level-one alert against monkeypox as the first case was detected in the country, according to local media.
The alert level, the lowest on the country's four-tier scale, was issued earlier in the day, ahead of the announcement Monday evening that the health ministry here had detected the first case of the disease in the Tokyo area.
Amid a global outbreak of the virus, declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday, the Japanese government has asked its nationals overseas to take extra precautions against catching the disease.