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The World Health Organisation has cast doubts on North Korea’s claims of progress in the fight against a COVID-19 outbreak, saying it believes the situation is getting worse, not better, amid an absence of independent data.

North Korea reported 96 610 more people showing fever amid its nationwide lockdown aimed at containing the impoverished country's first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak.North Korea reported 96 610 more people showing fever amid its nationwide lockdown aimed at containing the impoverished country's first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak.

Pyongyang has never directly confirmed how many people have tested positive for the virus but experts suspect under reporting in the figures released through government-controlled media, making it difficult to assess the scale of the situation. He said the WHO did not have access to any privileged information beyond the numbers publicly reported by state media.

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