TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA — Director General of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) Ministry of Health RI Maxi Rein Rondonuwu said that examination of samples of lesions or rashes on the skin of suspected patients was carried out Central Java shows a negative result Monkeypox or monkey pox.
This means, until now in Indonesia there has not been a single case monkeypox.
“This morning the results of the skin lesion samples were negative. So there are no cases yet monkey pox confirmed in Indonesia,” said Dr. Maxi when confirmed by reporters, Saturday (6/8/2022).
Previously, the 55-year-old man had also undergone a mouth and throat or oropharynx swab and the results were also negative for monkeypox.
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Spokesman for the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Mohammad Syahril said there were two stages of examination that a Monkeypox suspect underwent.
The first examination of the oropharynx and the second is a PCR examination of the lesions or smallpox rashes on the skin.
The resident from Pati underwent treatment and isolation at a private hospital in Semarang.
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