The Hanoi Department of Health has asked the city's Centre for Disease Control (CDC) to coordinate with Noi Bai International Airport and relevant units to increase monitoring to promptly detect suspected monkeypox cases at the airport and border gates, especially those returning from countries where the disease is currently spreading.

To detect promptly mpox (formerly called monkeypox) cases domestically and from international arrivals, Vietnamese authorities have stepped up efforts in monitoring and preventing the spread of the disease and providing guidance on related surveillance and control measures, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Spokesperson Pham Thu Hang has said.

VOV.VN - With the World Health Organization (WHO) recently declaring the ongoing Monkeypox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Vietnam has required localities to monitor and detect suspected cases at border gates as well as medical facilities.

VOV.VN - The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) announced on March 6 that it has so far this year detected three cases of monkeypox.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has documented a total of 135 cases of monkeypox, including six deaths, since September 2023, reported the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - The health centre of Bien Hoa City in the southern province of Dong Nai reported on December 21 that it has recorded another local resident infected with monkeypox in Long Binh ward.

VOV.VN - The country has recorded a total of 56 cases of monkeypox as of October 31, including two imported cases from 2022, said the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health on November 9.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has reported its first monkeypox death, a 29-year-old man from the Mekong Delta province of Long An, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health announced on October 23 that 18 out of 20 monkeypox cases who are receiving treatment in the southern city’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases have had infectious syndrome caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

VOV.VN - The Da Nang Centre for Disease Control announced on October 18 that the central city had detected a suspected case of monkeypox.