The country allegedly has the world’s lowest mortality rate. 9News
There have been widespread outside doubts about the accuracy of North Korean statistics as its reported fatalities are too low and its daily fever cases have been plummeting too fast recently.
Despite the claimed zero cases, it is unclear whether and how soon North Korea would formally declare victory over COVID-19 and lift pandemic curbs because experts say it could face a viral resurgence later this year like many other countries. Kim would need such credentials to garner greater public support to surmount economic hardships caused by pandemic border closings, UN sanctions and his own mismanagement, observers say.A visitor watches the North Korea side from the Unification Observation Post in Paju, South Korea.
North Korea had been widely expected to claim zero cases as its daily fever caseload has been nosediving in recent days - there were three reported cases on Friday and 11 on Thursday - from a peak of about 400,000 a day in May. In an indication of an easing outbreak, North Korea this week held massive no-mask public events in its capital, Pyongyang, where thousands of aged Korean War veterans and others gathered from across the country to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 war.
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