The number of reported cases has fallen 12 percent to 4.2 million during the week ending September 4, compared to a week earlier.
A young man in the southern Indian state of Kerala has died from monkeypox, becoming the first death in Asia and the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak.
The highest alert from the UN health agency is designed to sound an alarm that a coordinated international response is needed to deal with the outbreak.
There are vaccines and treatments available for monkeypox, the health organisation reminded, while calling for appropriate containment measures, more research and global collaboration.
The World Health Organization has said that any Covid-19 vaccines it has authorised for emergency use should be recognised by countries as they open up their borders to inoculated travellers.
The world’s top health body says people with no coronavirus symptoms very rarely pass on the infection, undoing much of the previous research.
Foreign Minister Mohammed al Hadhrami said the Southern Transitional Council had refused calls from the government and the international community to reverse its declaration of self-rule.
The international community must act in tandem to prevent a major food shortage that will disproportionately hurt developing countries.
"The bigger the competition, the more complicated mitigating actions will have to be and therefore the less likely it is that they can be done safely," Brian McCloskey said.
All available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or somewhere else, says Fadela Chaib, spokeswoman for the World Health Organization.
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