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The meeting was attended by airport and port health officers, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a statement.
The youth, according to the hospital authorities, reached Kannur from a Middle East country after landing at Mangaluru airport.
Extensive training for doctors and officials of local bodies as well as help desks in all the four international airports in Kerala are some of the latest steps taken by the State government to deal with monkeypox.
Monkeypox in India: Notably, the first case of monkeypox in the WHO South-East Asia Region has been reported from India, in a 35-year-old man who arrived from the Middle East earlier this week.
The Delhi government has made Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital the nodal centre for management of the Monkeypox infection, with starting of training of the doctors in the hospital, a senior official said on Saturday.