North Korea said on Friday it was achieving 'good results' in its fight against its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, as the number of people with fever symptoms rose past 2 million.
Volunteers carry out temperature screening during an anti-virus campaign in Pyongyang, North Korea in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on March 4, 2020. KCNA via REUTERS/File PhotoSEOUL, May 20 - North Korea said on Friday it was achieving "good results" in its fight against its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, as the number of people with fever symptoms rose past 2 million.
North Korea reported 263,370 more people with fever symptoms, and two more deaths, taking its total fever caseload since late April to 2.24 million as of Thursday evening, including 65 deaths, according to its KCNA state news agency. "Even under the maximum emergency epidemic prevention situation, normal production is kept at key industrial sectors and large-scale construction projects are propelled without let-up," KCNA reported.The U.N. human rights agency has warned of the "devastating" consequences of COVID for North Korea's 25 million people, while World Health Organization officials worry an unchecked spread could lead to the emergence of deadlier new variants.
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