The spokesman for the Junta de Castilla y León, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, has revealed that the Community patient suspected of having monkeypox, as well as "his environment", are kept in isolation "whatever the final result" of the analysis of the sample to "prevent the spread of this disease in the Community".

As revealed in the press conference after the Governing Council, "the corresponding precautionary measures have been taken for the isolation of this person on whom there is a possibility that he may have contracted monkeypox", recalling, however , that said case "is not confirmed" yet.

"There is no official case as such, but a suspicious case," reiterated Carriedo, who recalled that the samples "have already been sent" to the National Microbiological Institute, located in Majadahona (Madrid), and that they are now awaiting a response that they hope to obtain "soon" but that, in any case, does not depend on the Board, since "there are quite a few samples sent from other communities and, depending on the circumstances and conditions of each one, the analysis," reports Ical.

Carriedo has detailed that for cases of monkeypox, "there is no system of alert codes" similar to Covid but that, in any case, Castilla y León is "prepared and working" although today there are "zero cases detected and one under study.