North Korean leader Kim Jong-un calls for nationwide lockdown after the nuclear-armed country confirmed its first-ever cases of Covid-19
Pyongyang announces the country's first-ever case of Covid-19, with state media calling it a"severe national emergency incident" after more than two years of keeping the pandemic at bay.
Kim "called on all the cities and counties of the whole country to thoroughly lock down their areas," the official KCNA news agency said on Thursday. Kim chaired the Workers' Party meeting on the Covid outbreak response while the state media called it a "severe national emergency incident" after more than two years of keeping the pandemic at bay.
North Korea was one of the last places in the world without an acknowledged virus case. Turkmenistan has reported no cases to the World Health Organization, though its claim also is widely doubted by outside experts. Early in 2020 — before the coronavirus spread around the world — North Korea took severe steps to keep out the virus and described them as a matter of “national existence". It quarantined people with symptoms resembling-19 and all but halted cross-border traffic and trade for two years and is even believed to have ordered troops to shoot on sight any trespassers who crossed its borders.
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