North Korea has reported 21 new deaths and another 174,400 cases of fever, as leader Kim Jong Un warned that the country is facing “great turmoil” due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released the figures yesterday, after Mr Kim chaired a politburo meeting to review the regime’s “maximum emergency” anti-virus system and discuss how to swiftly distribute medical supplies. “The spread of the malignant epidemic is a great turmoil to fall on our country since the founding,” he was cited as saying.
Mr Kim has ordered a lockdown of major cities and told officials to learn from other countries’ successful virus control measures, especially China’s. He also urged people to have faith that they can overcome the outbreak soon, as the transmissions are contained within certain communities that have already been isolated and not spreading across regions.
The situation is not uncontrollable, he added.
North Korea announced its first Covid-19 case on Thursday, at a time when the two-year-long pandemic is moving into the endemic phase in South Korea.
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