Deputy Premier Steven Miles said while the World Health Organisation had declared an emergency overnight for the virus,there was “no cause for alarm here in Queensland”.
The chief of the World Health Organisation said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.
Two children are the first paediatric cases in the US where more than 2800 have been recorded.
Men who have sex with men are raising concerns about the virus spreading in Australia following the northern hemisphere summer.
Monkeypox had not been identified in Australia before May,but dozens of cases have since been recorded across several states.
The virus which causes flu-like symptoms followed by a rash,and can be deadly in some cases,has now spread to every continent.
Twenty-nine countries have reported cases to the WHO in the current outbreak,which began in May.
NSW Health said the cases were not connected to the three previously reported cases of monkeypox in the state.
Queensland health authorities will not push for vaccinations but are keeping a careful watch after a man with monkeypox visited the state recently.
“This is not COVID,” the former head of WHO’s emergencies department said. “We need to slow it down,but it does not spread in the air and we have vaccines to protect against it.”
Spain reported 24 new cases on Friday mainly in the Madrid region where the regional government closed a sauna linked to the majority of infections.