For the first time, the North Korean authorities officially announced the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced in a report this morning that it had convened a Politburo meeting to discuss the issue, saying, “There has been a national emergency that caused a shock to our emergency quarantine front.”
The news agency said, “The most significant national emergency has occurred in the country’s emergency quarantine front, which has been firmly guarded for two years and three months from February 2020 to today.”
He continued, “The National Emergency Management Agency and its units deliberated on the results of rigorous genetic sequence analysis on samples collected from members of a group in the capital on May 8th, and recently, the Omicron mutation that is rapidly spreading worldwide We concluded that it is consistent with virus BA.2.”
Chairman of the State Affairs Commission Kim Jong-un also attended today’s Politburo meeting.
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At the meeting, Chairman Kim said, “All cities and counties across the country thoroughly block out their regions and organize business and production activities in a state of isolation by business unit, production unit, and living unit to completely block the spread of the malicious virus. do it,” he ordered.
He added, “The enemy that is more dangerous to us now than a malicious virus is unscientific fear, lack of belief, and weak will. We will surely overcome the situation and win the emergency quarantine project.”
North Korea has claimed that it has not had a single confirmed case of the coronavirus for the past two years.
At the military parade held last month with 20,000 people mobilized, no one wore a mask.
However, as the confidence of Corona 19 in China has grown recently, freight trains to and from Sinuiju in North Korea and Dandong in China have been completely suspended, and it is known that lockdown orders have been issued in a row banning the movement of residents in Pyongyang and other places.
This is the first time that North Korea, which has claimed to have had no confirmed cases of COVID-19, has acknowledged the fact.
