A day after officially confirming the first cases of Covid in North Korea since the beginning of the pandemic, the Kim Jong-un regime pointed out that at least one death from the disease has already been recorded in the country.
The state network KCNA reported, in the early hours of Friday (13), late Thursday afternoon (12) in Brasilia, that a “fever of unidentified origin” has spread through the territory since the end of April. Since then, 350,000 people would have shown symptoms.
Also according to the regime’s media, 187,800 North Koreans are receiving treatment for this disease, in isolation.
Earlier on Thursday, KCNA reported that authorities had detected an outbreak linked to the BA.2 subvariant of the omicron, the most transmissible strain of the coronavirus and responsible for large spikes in the disease in many countries earlier this year.
The occurrence was reported after health authorities carried out tests, on Sunday (8), on people from an unidentified organization in the capital who had a fever.
The dictatorship spoke in a framework of a “serious national emergency” and, at a high-level meeting of the Workers’ Party to address the matter, Kim called on all cities and counties across the country to lock down their areas to help stop the spread of the virus. .
Also according to the North Korean news agency, he called for national unity during the period of emergency, telling the population that “the unscientific fear, lack of faith and lack of will” would constitute “the most dangerous enemies” of the North. than the virus.
