North Korea reports 8 more deaths amid coronavirus outbreak

North Korea reported Monday eight new deaths from “fever”, after recently announcing its first cases of covid-19, while mobilizing its military to solve problems of “drug supply”.

Leader Kim Jong Un ordered the military commission to act”to immediately stabilize the supply of medicines in the city of Pyongyang by involving the powerful forces of the medical branch of the People’s Army”, reported the official KCNA agency.

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The outbreak, which kim had caused “big upheavals” It affects a country that does not have anticovid vaccines, antiviral drugs or the capacity to carry out massive tests.

According to KCNA, kim reported that the “Orders have not been properly placed and the medicines have not been supplied to the pharmacies”, Sunday during an emergency meeting of the national politburo.

He indicated that the pharmacies did not comply with the order to operate for 24 hours.

State media reported that 50 people have died, 1,213,550 suffer from fever and at least 564,860 are under medical treatment.

North Korea has maintained a tight lockdown against the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, though experts have said that with the presence of the omicron variant in the region, it would be a matter of time before the covid-19 spread across the country.

Source: Elcomercio

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