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Nearly 3 million cases of ‘fever’, North Korea says the Covid-19 epidemic is ‘under control’

North Korea On May 24, the number of infections was on a “steady” downward trend during the first Covid-19 outbreak in the country.

North Korea recorded an additional 134,510 people with fever symptoms in the 24 hours to the evening of May 23, bringing the total number of “fever cases” nationwide to 2.95 million. The death toll is 68, according to the KCNA news agency on May 24.

This is the third day in a row that North Korea has reported fewer than 200,000 infections a day. However, North Korea continues to not say whether these cases have tested positive for Covid-19, possibly due to a lack of testing equipment.

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North Korea says epidemic is under control

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According to KCNA, North Korea has achieved “successes” in the fight against disease outbreak.

“In a few days after the maximum emergency epidemic prevention and control system was activated, the nationwide infection and death rate decreased significantly and the number of people recovered increased, leading to effective containment and control. result of the pandemic’s spread and maintaining a stable situation clearly,” KCNA said.

North Korea says it is expanding its supply of essential drugs, though it did not specify exactly which ones are being produced. Authorities are also distributing food and medicine across the country, with military medics deployed to assist with drug distribution and testing.

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Korea and America has Offer to help North Korea anti-epidemic, including vaccine aid, but Pyongyang did not respond to this request.

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