UK health officials are still urging caution while trying to get new supplies of the vaccine.
People are being asked to stay at home if they have symptoms and contact NHS 111 of their local sexual health service for advice.
The UKHSA said more than 33,000 doses of the smallpox vaccine - which also gives good protection against monkeypox - have been given out.Around 1,700 doses have been given to healthcare workers treating people with monkeypox and another 1,600 have gone to close contacts of those infected. Health officials say there is still "very high uncertainty" about the epidemic but they estimate that outside of London growth in cases has been flat since late-July and is now a similar size to the London epidemic.
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