According to the news agency, some 187,800 people “with a fever of which the cause could not be determined” are being treated in isolation.
This mysterious fever has been circulating in the country since the end of April and has already infected some 350,000 people. About half of them have since been cured, KCNA says. It is not known whether people also tested positive for corona.
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North Korea has said for two years that corona was not in the country, something that is widely doubted. Yesterday it was suddenly officially announced that someone in the capital Pyongyang has the highly contagious omikron subvariant BA.2. had been detected. Immediately afterwards, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced a national lockdown.
South Korea wants to provide the neighboring country with corona vaccines, President Yoon Suk-yeol announced on Friday. “The details are still under discussion,” the president’s spokesman said.
Action plan
The World Health Organization (WHO) also said on Friday it was in contact with the government of the penniless, internationally isolated country and to help set up an action plan.
North Korea has so far refused to accept corona vaccines from abroad. In 2020, the country announced it would develop its own vaccine, but nothing has been heard of it since.
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