North Korea Have Its First Suspected Covid-19 Case

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting after a person suspected of having COVID-19 returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border this month, state media said on Sunday.

If confirmed, it would be the first case officially acknowledged by North Korean authorities, who have so far said the country has no confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.

Kim declared a state of emergency and imposed a lockdown on the border city of Kaesong, calling it a "critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country," state news agency KCNA reported.

According to KCNA, a person who defected to South Korea three years ago returned across the fortified border that divides the two Koreas with symptoms that suggested COVID-19.

KCNA did not specifically mention whether the individual had been tested, but said an "uncertain result was made from several medical check-ups of the secretion of that person's upper respiratory organ and blood," prompting officials to quarantine the person and investigate anyone he may have been in contact with.

North Korea has received thousands of coronavirus testing kits from Russia and other countries, and imposed strict border closures. Thousands of people in North Korea were quarantined, but restrictions had recently eased.

 

 

 

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From a defector that goes back in the country illegally, nonetheless.

With NK being closed country, I wonder how terrible it can go if it does spread.

[Guest]

Congrats on them for holding out so long?  

Anyways I can only imagine how devastating this will be for them. Many of their citizens are malnourished and lack proper health care. Lots of people will be dead.

[Brecht 7]

Wait I thought he was dead or something

[uo111 5,282]

No one actually believes coronavirus just didn’t make it to north korea, right?

[GregJA 5,536]

I always thought Kim was dead 

after that whole thing and his obviously fake ribbon cutting appearance ive never heard a thing about him - 

[Bt1 5,213]

3 hours ago, uo111 said:

No one actually believes coronavirus just didn’t make it to north korea, right?

It's possible considering how isolated they are from the rest of the world. 

However, this official information is send out to their population for a reason. Their propaganda machine probably wants to say that "it comes from south korea".

[Doot 2]

Wait, have they not had any cases before this?

[paradox 4,568]

well their entire country is basically locked down within itself, they're not allowed to travel between villages/towns etc anyway

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1 hour ago, Doot said:

Wait, have they not had any cases before this?

I mean, it’s pretty impossible for anyone there to go out of the country, and it’s very hard for someone to go in. It’s a pretty isolated and closed out country.

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13 minutes ago, RudraCNG said:

chromatica promo = covid cases in north korea

[Guest]

Theyll be fine, nobody goes to north korea, nobody from north korea goes anywhere else, so i guess they have an advantage now

[Runway 27,876]

why would anyone go back after escaping NK?

[ThisGuyTony 34,964]

Why doesn’t the great God Kim remove the virus from North Korea?

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1 hour ago, Runway said:

why would anyone go back after escaping NK?

They don't want their entire families to be executed for their escape.