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Dr. Suresh Kumar said a study is going on over monkeypox cases in Delhi, "We are doing the patient study, we have observed that Nigeria or African Origin patients are in the majority and Indian.
The suspected case, also a Nigerian woman, were admitted on September 14, another source said, adding, the seventh and eighth confirmed cases and the suspected case are admitted at present,
Delhi had registered its first monkeypox case on July 24 this year, a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.