Published 16 August 2024 at 14.55
Domestic. The government has summoned its special crisis group, the Group for Strategic Coordination (GSS), to a meeting due to the first confirmed Swedish case of the more serious type 1 monkeypox variant.
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The meeting will be held “in the near future”, says the Prime Minister's press secretary Hanna Strömberg to SVT Nyheter.
GSS, which is led by Ulf Kristersson's State Secretary Johan Stuart, mainly consists of State Secretaries from various ministries . The group has previously been convened in other crisis situations, for example during the corona pandemic.
The new variant of monkeypox (“mpox”), which has mainly spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other parts of Africa, is considered both more contagious and more deadly than previous variants. The Swedish case has been linked to a person who was infected during a stay in an area with an ongoing outbreak in Africa.
Social Affairs Minister Jakob Forssmed has assured that Sweden's preparedness against the virus is good and that the government is closely following developments. State epidemiologist Magnus Gisslén emphasizes that the disease is serious, but FHM does not believe that there are signs of a new pandemic. The WHO has classified the outbreak as a global health emergency.
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