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North Korea: 6 dead following Covid outbreak

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 13 May 2022 12:33
2 Min Read

The country has declared "maximum emergency measures," and 187,800 people have been "isolated and treated" after showing signs of fever.

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  • A student’s hands are disinfected at a school in Pyongyang, North Korea (AP)
    A student’s hands are disinfected at a school in Pyongyang, North Korea (AP)

North Korea has announced its first Covid-19 deaths amid an "explosive" outbreak of fever, state media reported on Friday, one day after the country admitted for the first time that it was dealing with a coronavirus outbreak.

Six people died and one of them tested positive for the highly transmissible Omicron variant, according to the official KCNA news agency.

Confirmation of North Korea's first Covid-19 deaths came after Pyongyang declared "maximum emergency measures" to combat an outbreak in the capital.

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The country has declared "maximum emergency measures," and 187,800 people have been "isolated and treated" after showing signs of fever.

Experts believe that none - or very few - of the country's 26 million people have been immunized, and there are growing fears that a large outbreak will quickly overwhelm the country's under-resourced health services.

It is worth mentioning that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared a nationwide state of emergency on Thursday, calling the outbreak the "gravest national emergency."

North Korea had insisted that it had not recorded a single case of Covid since closing its borders at the start of the pandemic more than two years ago.

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