Two suspected cases of Monkeypox have been reported from Lahore's General Hospital (LGH), the 24NewsHD TV channel reported on Sunday.
According to the hospital administration, one of the new suspected patients is a female aged 40 and the other is a male aged 55, who came to the health facility with the symptoms of the disease. Their symptoms include fever and red spots while one of them also has blisters on the body, it added.
The hospital administration said that both the suspected patients are under treatment for the last two days. They have been shifted to an isolation ward. Their blood samples have been sent to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) for confirmation, it maintained. Both suspected cases will be tested for monkeypox to confirm the disease, the administration said.
The suspected cases come a week after Pakistan detected the first two cases of monkeypox in people who traveled to the country from abroad.