As with past outbreaks of disease in North Korea, one of the biggest concerns surrounding the country's COVID-19 outbreak is that Pyongyang's penchant for secrecy makes it hard to accurately gauge its severity. 9News
: fewer than 5 million cases of "fever" and just 73 fatalities - a fraction of the death toll of every other country in the world.
He assumes little has changed since he left and that history, if not exactly repeating itself, is at least rhyming.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party's Central Committee.As with past outbreaks of disease in North Korea, one of the biggest concerns surrounding the country's COVID-19 outbreak is that Pyongyang's penchant for secrecy makes it hard to accurately gauge its severity.
Two months and millions of suspected cases later, he claimed a "shining success" in stopping the disease in its tracks. "At least in my position, I am not able to contrast this fear that we had at the beginning of 2020 about the catastrophic consequences of COVID in and its current situation."There are also fears that new, possibly more virulent, variants could emerge from unchecked transmission through North Korea's population of about 25 million.
One ray of hope for Park was the country's ability to vaccinate its population quickly - demonstrated during its nationwide inoculation program for the 2006 measles outbreak. Global vaccine alliance Gavi said last month it understood North Korea had accepted COVID-19 vaccines from China and had started administering doses.
One defector, 44, who is living in South Korea, said she had been contacted by her family in the North soon after the outbreak was reported.
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