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North Korea said on Tuesday it was witnessing a “stable” downward trend in its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, reporting less than 200 000 new patients with fever symptoms for a third consecutive day on Tuesday.

The COVID wave, declared on May 12, has fuelled concerns over a lack of vaccines, inadequate medical infrastructure and a potential food crisis in the country of 25 million.The COVID wave, declared on May 12, has fuelled concerns over a lack of vaccines, inadequate medical infrastructure and a potential food crisis in the country of 25 million.

At least 134 510 people newly showed fever symptoms as of Monday evening, taking the total number of such cases to 2.95 million since late April, the official KCNA news agency reported.KCNA said the country was reporting “successes” in the fight against the COVID outbreak. The North said it was expanding the production of essential medicine supplies, though it did not elaborate exactly what types were being produced.

Instead, health authorities report the number with fever symptoms, making it difficult to assess the scale of the COVID wave, experts have said.

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This shows that the infected population has reached the maximum.

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