Madagascar and Comoros have recorded new surges in Mpox cases even after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) lifted the disease’s status as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security, officials said Friday. Boum II disclosed that Madagascar had reported 202 confirmed Mpox cases, within 20 of 114 health districts affected. In the Union of Comoros, he said that authorities had confirmed nine Mpox cases out of nine suspected, with no deaths reported so far. “Africa CDC worked with the Comoros Ministry of Health to pre-position diagnostics and provide training to enhance detection capacity,” he said. Instead, Africa CDC and member states are implementing a transition roadmap to integrate Mpox into routine surveillance and public health response systems.