Officials in New York City have declared a public health emergency due to the spread of the monkeypox virus, calling the city ''the epicentre'' of the outbreak. The announcement Saturday by Mayor Eric Adams and health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said as many as 1,50,000 city residents could be at risk of infection. The declaration will allow officials to issue emergency orders under the city health code and amend code provisions to implement measures to help slow the spread. In the last two days, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency declaration and the state health department called monkeypox an ''imminent threat to public health.'' New York had recorded 1,345 cases a
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