June 12, 2021 | 3:37pm | Updated June 12, 2021 | 3:37pm.

While COVID-19 continues to run amok in the United Kingdom, fueled by the new Indian variant, there’s a new threat facing the British: Monkeypox.

Two confirmed cases of the extremely communicable West African disease have now been confirmed in the United Kingdom.

The man arrived in the UK and quarantined with family and on May 10, “the patient developed a rash, beginning on the face.

I’m currently dealing with a monkeypox outbreak and cases of drug-resistant TB [tuberculosis], and that is absolutely standard,” Matt Hancock said in his evidence to MPs about the government’s response to COVID-19, according to the Mirror