A 22-year-old man, suspected to have contracted monkeypox, died in Kerala’s Thrissur district on Saturday, days after returning from high-risk UAE, officials said. 

Health officials rushed samples of the deceased to the National Institute of Virology, a regional centre in Alappuzha, for confirmation.

They asked the family members of the deceased to cremate the body as per the WHO protocols, a senior health official said.