Residents told that rising cases mean they must stay home for five days and do frequent temperature checks
People visit statues in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il for the lunar new year.People visit statues in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il for the lunar new year.
North Korea acknowledged its first Covid-19 outbreak in 2022 but by August had declared victory over the virus. The secretive regime never confirmed how many people caught Covid, apparently because it lacks the means to conduct widespread testing.Instead it reported daily numbers of patients with fever, a tally that rose to 4.77 million out of a population of about 25 million. But it has not reported such cases since 29 July.
State media have continued to report on anti-pandemic measures to battle respiratory diseases, including the flu, but had yet to report on the lockdown order. On Tuesday, state news agency KCNA said the city of Kaesong, near the border with South Korea, had intensified public communication campaigns “so that all the working people observe anti-epidemic regulations voluntarily in their work and life”.
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