The DGS said in a statement that four more cases of human infection with the Monkeypox virus were confirmed by the National Institute of Health Dr Ricardo Jorge (INSA), which raised the number of infections so far in the country to a hundred.

“All confirmed infections are in men between the ages of 20 and 61, the majority being under 40 years old”, says the DGS, adding that the identified cases remain under clinical follow-up.

The World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox specialist WHO Rosamund Lewis on Monday said it was unlikely that the Monkeypox outbreak would turn into a pandemic like Covid-19, despite the rapid increase in cases in the last month.

"We do not believe that this outbreak is the beginning of a new pandemic because it is a known virus, we have the tools to control it and our experience tells us that it is not transmitted as easily in humans as in animals," she said.