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MANILA — The Philippines has reported its first case of the monkeypox virus, detected in a citizen who returned from abroad earlier this month, a health ministry official said on Friday.
The patient was now in isolation, said Department of Health Undersecretary Beverly Ho.
—Reporting by Enrico Dela CruzEditing by Ed Davies