Asia
May 16, 2022
North Korea Acknowledges Health Crisis amid Covid-19 Outbreak
North Korean officials have made an unprecedented admission regarding the country’s Covid-19 health crisis and reported a Covid-19 case for the very first time. In a rare instance of allowing government-run media to report negative news, officials announced that an unspecified “fever” was spreading “explosively” in the country, infecting more than 1.2 million people and killing 50.
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