Over 50,000 monkeypox cases have been recorded across the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) data.
However, the transmission is slowing in the virus hotspots of Europe and the United States, said the WHO.
The World Health Organization’s dashboard listed 50,496 cases and 16 deaths as reported this year to the UN agency, which declared the outbreak a global public health emergency in July.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the declines in new infections proved the outbreak could be halted.
The countries which have reported more than a thousand cases to the WHO in total are the United States (17,994), Spain (6,543), Brazil (4,693), France (3,547), Germany (3,467), Britain (3,413), Peru (1,463), Canada (1,228) and the Netherlands (1,160).
Meanwhile, the WHO’s Europe chief said Tuesday he saw “encouraging” signs that the outbreak was slowing on the continent and heading “in the right direction”.
The disease causes fever, muscular aches and large boil-like skin lesions.
Nigeria has reported four deaths to the WHO, Ghana three, Spain and the Central African Republic two each, while Brazil, Belgium, Ecuador, India and Cuba have each reported one fatality.
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