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North Korea is on the road to “finally alleviating” the crisis resulting from the first recognized outbreak of COVID-19, the state news agency said Monday.
North Korea has stated that 99.98% of 4.77 million fever patients have recovered completely since late April, but due to a clear lack of testing, figures for patients who proved positive have been released. Not.
“The epidemic response campaign has ultimately been improved to completely mitigate the crisis,” KCNA said. North Korea added that it reported an additional 310 fever symptoms.
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The World Health Organization has questioned North Korea’s claims, saying last month that it believes the situation is worse, but not good, in the absence of independent data.
One analyst said the North Korean declaration could be a prelude to restoring trade, which had long been hampered by a pandemic.
“The current trend is that North Korea could announce the end of the COVID crisis within a month, which is cross-border trade,” said Jeong Sung-chan, director of the North Korean Research Center at Sejong Institute. It could be a precursor to resuming. ” In South Korea.
Analysts say the authoritarian North has already used a pandemic to strengthen strict social controls. Pyongyang condemned the outbreak of “aliens” near the southern border and urged the public to avoid coming from outside.
Cases of daily new fever in North Korea reported by the KCNA have declined since mid-May when the Recluse Country first admitted to fighting the outbreak of COVID-19.
Due to the lack of public vaccination efforts, North Korea is conducting intensive health examinations nationwide, and as part of its countermeasures, it conducts daily PCR tests on water collected in border areas. He said he was.
North Korea also said it is developing new ways to better detect the virus and its variants, as well as other infectious diseases such as monkeypox.
North Korea’s claim of “epidemic stability” comes from other Asian countries tackling a new wave of infection. China reported 691 new cases on Saturday, developing local infections at its peak after May 23.
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In the adjacent South, daily COVID infections exceeded 40,000 on Tuesday for the first time in two months, and authorities and experts predicted hundreds of thousands of new cases in the coming weeks.
Japan also warned that a new wave of infection seems to be spreading rapidly as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sought special care prior to school’s summer vacation.
The 16,878 new cases in Tokyo on Wednesday were the highest since February, but national aggregates exceeded 90,000 due to the recent surge in infections to levels not seen since the beginning of the year.