Congress leader and former Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday wrote to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and demanded a strict testing and quarantine protocol at the Mumbai airport in view of the Monkeypox concerns, reported the PTI.

Mpox, also known as monkeypox, is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus. Mpox is reportedly spreading rapidly across 13 African countries, including Congo, where 14,000 cases and 524 deaths have been reported.