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Contacts should now self-isolate for 21 days as more cases being detected 'on a daily basis'

The UK Health Security Agency recommends isolation for those who have had ‘unprotected direct contact or high-risk environmental contact’.

A total of 20 monkeypox cases have thus far been confirmed by the UK Health Security Agency with a fresh update due on Monday - with a total 145 cases have been confirmed worldwide

Guidance introduced in 2018, following the discovery of the UK's first monkeypox cases, state that contacts are assessed on a case-by-case basis, with those at risk urged to avoid the immunocompromised, children under 12 and pregnant women