Monkeypox: don’t touch foreigners, says China health chief, as first case reported

Official Wu Zunyou also called for people to avoid skin-to-skin contact' with those who had been abroad recently, as well as strangers'

A senior Chinese health official has advised people to avoid physical contact with foreigners to prevent possible monkeypox infection after the first known case of the virus on mainland China was reported on Friday.

To prevent possible monkeypox infection and as part of our healthy lifestyle, it is recommended that 1) you do not have direct skin-to-skin contact with foreigners," Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted on his official Weibo page on Saturday.