North Korea says 6 dead after admitting Covid outbreak for first time
The Guardian says North Korea has announced its first Covid-19 death amid an “explosive” outbreak of fever, state media said on Friday, one day after the regime admitted for the first time that it was tackling a coronavirus outbreak.
The official KCNA news agency said six people had died, adding that one of them had tested positive for the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
It said 187,800 people were being “isolated and treated” after a fever of unidentified origin spread in the country since late April. About 350,000 people had shown signs of fever, including 18,000 who newly reported such symptoms on Tuesday alone, KCNA said, adding that 162,200 of them treated so far. The news agency did not specify how many had tested positive for Covid-19.
Conformation of North Korea’s first Covid-19 death came after the regime said it was imposing “maximum emergency measures” to address an outbreak in the capital, Pyongyang.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/north-korean-state-media-confirms-first-covid-death
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