North Korea is being placed into lockdown after confirming its first coronavirus outbreak, leading authorities to call it a “severe national emergency”.
"There has been the biggest emergency incident in the country, with a hole in our emergency quarantine front, that has been kept safely over the past two years and three months since February 2020," it said.
North Korea closed its borders to the world in January 2020 and, until now, had not reported a single case.The outbreak poses a risk to the country’s mostly unvaccinated population and its under resourced health system.
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