North Korea admits it has an outbreak of covid-19
An unvaccinated population and minimal health infrastructure spell disaster
FOR MORE than two years, North Korea insisted that its border controls had kept covid-19 out of the country even as it devastated most of the rest of the globe. No longer. On May 12th state media said that the country had recorded its first cases of the Omicron variant a few days earlier. Pyongyang was locked down on May 10th.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “State of emergency”
Asia May 14th 2022
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