Its principles North Korea did not record no death patient «with fever» the previous 24 hours and talked about 134,510 new casesarguing that the situation is gradually being brought under controlas they find “stable»Their reduction, almost two weeks after they officially announced the first outbreak of the new coronavirus in the isolated country.
Authorities see “success” in tackling the crisis: for a third consecutive day the potential cases remained below the 200,000 level. The official death toll remained unchanged, at 68 dead out of a total of 2.95 million infections. But those numbers are being challenged more and more by experts, who point out that all they show is how difficult it remains to estimate the spread of the pandemic.
The outbreak of the crisis, announced on 12 May, sparked concerns over the complete absence of vaccines and drugs against COVID-19, adequate medical infrastructure and the potential food crisis that could cause the state of 25 million inhabitants. North Korea keeps its borders closed and there is no way to verify official numbers.
As it obviously does not have a test, Pyongyang has not announced the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2, nor whether the deaths it is talking about were actually due to COVID-19.
Amid “inadequate examinations, disincentives at the local level of public administration to report outbreaks, cases, deaths, and whatever political motives the top leadership has“What comes out”are statistics with absolutely no meaning“, Summed up Christopher Greena specialist in North Korea at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, via Twitter.
The official KCNA news agency broadcast yesterday how drug factories ‘speed up production’, but without specifying which preparations exactly. At the same time, Pyongyang continues to face with icy silence the offers of South Korea and the United States to help it deal with the first officially confirmed outbreak of the pandemic.
«From a statistical point of view“North Korea announcements”do not fit comparisons with international standards and seem to be intended for domestic consumption“, Observed o Moon Jin-sooan assistant professor at Seoul National School of Medicine, noted that Pyongyang’s mortality rate is 0.002%, while in South Korea it is at 0.13% this year despite being fully immunized and receiving booster vaccines for the most part. of the population (almost 87% and almost 64% respectively).
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