The number of cases offeverin North Korea fell for the 7th consecutive day on Friday May 27, said state media KCNA, which does not expressly cite Covid-19.
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North Korea’s KCNA news agency reported just over 100,000 new cases of “feverAccording to the official name used to designate Covid-19 on Friday, a figure down from the 390,000 daily cases reported at the beginning of the month. KCNA also reported one additional death on Friday – bringing the total to 69 – and said the fatality rate remains at 0.002%. According to her, more than three million people have fallen ill from the “fever“, since the authorities recognized its existence in North Korea on May 12.
The “maximum state of emergency” declared
The authorities had officially announced last weekend that they had managed to contain a recent epidemic outbreak of Covid-19. An assertion that experts, however, question, the 25 million North Koreans are not vaccinated and the health system of their country is one of the worst in the world. KCNA also reported that the country “intensified the development and production of tests and drugs“.
“Tens of millions of medicines of more than 90 kinds were supplied to different parts of the country on May 24 alone.“, said the news agency. North Korea, which declared the “maximum state of emergencyin the face of the outbreak, has stepped up production of antipyretic drugs and thermometers, among others, state media reported last week.
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Since the start of the pandemic, initially detected in China at the end of 2019, the North Korean regime had rejected vaccination offers from China, Russia and the World Health Organization (WHO). According to experts, the country has no treatment for Covid-19 and does not have the capacity to massively test its population. During his trip to South Korea on Saturday, US President Joe Biden also indicated that Washington had offered to provide vaccines against Covid-19 to North Korea, but had not “no response received“.