World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: 'We are also concerned that those occupying the lab could be accidentally exposed to pathogens stored there.'
Only 16 percent of health facilities were functioning in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
Mpox – which spreads via close contact and tends to cause flu-like symptoms and pus-filled skin lesions – was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization in July 2022. The organisation maintained its alert in November.
The 56-year-old Chinese woman was the third person known to have been infected with the H3N8 subtype of avian influenza, the World Health Organization said late on Tuesday.
Healthcare services in the Palestinian territories have suffered greatly as a result of Israeli occupation and siege and insufficient funding.
The World Health Organization said understanding the virus' origins is a scientific imperative in order to help prevent any future outbreaks, whereas it was a moral imperative for the sake of those who lost their lives to Covid-19.
Cholera is already a high risk in Syria, with at least two deaths reported since the quake.
More than 1,000 health institutions in Syria were damaged by last week's earthquakes, the World Health Organisation's Eastern Mediterranean regional director has said.
China has played down the possibility of a big coronavirus wave over the next couple of months, saying most of its population has been infected,
A National Health Commission official said that China - where coronavirus cases have soared since Beijing abandoned its zero-Covid policy - had recorded 59,938 virus-related deaths between December 8 and January 12.