North Korea admits to Covid outbreak for first time

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Omicron infections create ‘biggest emergency incident in the country’, according to state media, as Kim Jong-un chairs response meeting

North Korea has for the first time officially confirmed a Covid-19 outbreak, with state media reporting a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron virus, known as BA.2, had been detected in Pyongyang.

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