The Federal Ministry of Health said six additional cases of monkey pox infection have been recorded based on laboratory confirmation.
These six cases are among the earlier reported suspected cases of Monkey pox virus in the country.
According to the Director, Media and Public Relations in the ministry, Mrs. Boade Akinola, in a statement in Abuja on Friday, two cases were confirmed each in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom while Enugu State and FCT had one case each.
Akinola, said the Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said efforts were still going on to find out if any of the new cases had a link with the Bayelsa cluster, where the outbreak started.
Ehanire assured that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) was working with all affected states to ensure case finding and adequate management.
This is even as he called for calm among members of the public.
He said although frightening as the case might be, no death had been recorded to date.
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He added that as at October 25, a total of 94 suspected cases had been reported from 11 states.
The states, according to him, were Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Rivers and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
He also disclosed that patients of the newly confirmed cases were already being managed by public health authorities and had been receiving appropriate clinical care.
He said the Ministry of Health, through NCDC, was in close contact with all State Epidemiology Teams, and the health facilities providing clinical care to both suspected and confirmed cases.
State Commissioners for Health, he said, had been advised to place all health care facilities and Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers on alert, to ensure early case detection, reporting and effective treatment.
