Coronavirus is spreading rapidly through North Korea, with the country’s leader Kim Jong-un conceding the outbreak is a ‘great disaster’.
A major outbreak could be devastating for North Korea which has poor healthcare and a largely unvaccinated population
The country previously claimed to have prevented coronavirus, which has travelled to almost every part of the world, from crossing its borders. On Saturday, state media reported that there had been half a million cases of unexplained fever since late April and 27 deaths. ‘The spread of the malignant epidemic is [the greatest] turmoil to fall on our country since the founding,’ the official KCNA news agency quoted Mr Kim as saying.
In a report presented to the Politburo, the emergency epidemic office blamed most of the deaths on ‘mistakes like overmuch taking of drugs, bereft of scientific medical treatment’.
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