The isolated country is grappling with its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak, which it confirmed last week, fuelling concerns over a major crisis due to a lack of vaccines and adequate medical infrastructure.
“A powerful force” of the army’s medical corps was immediately deployed to improve the supply of medicines in the capital Pyongyang, the centre of the epidemic, following an order by leader Kim Jong Un, KCNA reported.Some senior members of the ruling Workers’ Party’s powerful politburo visited pharmacies and medicine management offices to check supply and demand, KCNA said in another dispatch, after Kim criticised ineffective distribution of drugs.
Tracing efforts were also intensified, with some 11 000 health officials, teachers and medical students joining an”intensive medical examination of all inhabitants” across the country to locate and treat people with fever. Still, various sectors of the national economy are maintaining production and construction, while taking thorough anti-virus measures, KCNA added.
South Korea offered working-level talks on Monday to send medical supplies, including vaccines, masks and test kits, as well as technical cooperation, but said the North had not acknowledged its message.
North korea+highly vaccinated = sweeping wave South Africa + less vaccinated = less severe wave… actually Africa is less vaccinated why aren’t the “Experts” talking about it and doing more research
We will never see the end of this Covid