Kim said it was a "critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country," state media reported.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un called an emergency meeting after imposing total lockdown measures on the city of Kaesong when a person there was found with suspected coronavirus symptoms, state media reported Sunday.
The lockdown in Kaesong, a city with an estimated population of 200,000, located just north of the heavily fortified land border with South Korea, began Friday afternoon, KCNA reported. Across the border, China reported 46 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the highest daily tally in more than a month. Some of Spain’s summer venues, including nightclubs, bars and beaches, are facing new restrictions. The northeast region of Catalonia is also home to two virus hotspots, prompting authorities in Barcelona to tighten restrictions that were relaxed only a month ago.
Health authorities warned that the country is going backward in its battle against the pandemic, which has killed more than 30,000 people in the country. Occupancy was limited to 60 percent so passengers could keep their distance from one another, but even that level was not reached.Vietnam on Sunday reimposed restrictions in one of its most popular summer beach destinations in Da Nang after a second person tested positive for COVID-19. They were the first locally transmitted cases in the country in over three months.
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