The World Health Organization plans to announce the level of preparedness for monkeypox

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The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is expected to announce on Saturday whether or not the organization should raise its highest level of preparedness to the monkeypox outbreak.
Ghebreyesus will hold a virtual press conference at 13:00 GMT Saturday, the organization said in a statement Friday evening.
The statement did not say anything about the nature of the announcement that Ghebreyesus will make, but this comes at a time when more than 15,300 cases of monkeypox have been recorded in 72 countries, according to figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as of July 20.
And on Thursday, during a long meeting of the expert committee that should guide him in his decision and recommendations, Ghebreyesus explained that he is “still concerned” about the spread of the disease, even if the rate of spread has decreased in some places.
The responsibility of declaring a public health emergency of international concern, which is the highest level of alert at the World Health Organization, rests with the Director-General of the World Health Organization, and this is done based on the recommendations of the Emergency Committee.
At the first meeting on June 23, the majority of experts recommended that the WHO not declare a health emergency that could raise international concern.
“Monkeypox is out of control and there is no legal, scientific, or health reason not to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern,” Lawrence Gustin, professor of American health law and director of the World Health Organization’s Center for Health Law, wrote Friday evening on Twitter.
The unusual increase in monkeypox cases was discovered in early May outside the countries of Central and West Africa, where the virus is usually endemic, and since then it has spread throughout the world and has been the epicenter of Europe.
Monkeypox, discovered in humans in 1970, is considered to be less dangerous and contagious than smallpox that was eradicated in 1980.

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