North Korea reported its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday, declaring a national emergency and imposing a national lockdown.
from late March, more than 64,200 people have been tested among the country’s 25 million residents, and all were negative.. The tests revealed that they had the BA.2 Omicron subvariant. The state media didn’t report the number of positive cases or the source of infection.” among some people, Reuters reported. Then North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party leaders and ordered a “strict lockdown” nationwide.
State television showed Kim wearing a mask upon arrival for the meeting, before taking it off as the meeting began. All other attendees wore masks. In past footage of similar meetings, everyone but Kim wore a mask, Reuters reported. “The state epidemic prevention work shall be switched over to the maximum emergency epidemic prevention system,” KCNA said.to The Associated Press
, which could suggest that North Korea is focusing more on restricting travel and supplies between regions rather than requiring people to stay home. Reports from an AP photographer in South Korea showed that people are still working in fields and walking in the public in a North Korean border town. South Korean officials have said publicly that they would prepare humanitarian aid for North Korea, including
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