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North Korea announces first Covid deaths amid 'explosive' outbreak
By Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN
Updated 9:17 PM ET, Thu May 12, 2022
North Korea declares national emergency over reported Covid-19 cases 02:12Seoul (CNN)North Korea has announced an "explosive" Covid-19 outbreak in the country that has killed six people and infected more than 350,000, according to state media.
The announcement comes a day after the isolated nation reported its first ever coronavirus case, calling the situation a "major national emergency."
On Thursday, North Korea reported 18,000 new "fever cases" and the six deaths, one of which tested positive for the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron, state media KCNA reported on Friday.
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By Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN
Updated 9:17 PM ET, Thu May 12, 2022
North Korea declares national emergency over reported Covid-19 cases 02:12Seoul (CNN)North Korea has announced an "explosive" Covid-19 outbreak in the country that has killed six people and infected more than 350,000, according to state media.
The announcement comes a day after the isolated nation reported its first ever coronavirus case, calling the situation a "major national emergency."
On Thursday, North Korea reported 18,000 new "fever cases" and the six deaths, one of which tested positive for the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron, state media KCNA reported on Friday.
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Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters on May 12.
He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won and Pak Jong Chon, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.
He was greeted by officials of the headquarters on the spot.
Making rounds of the command rooms of the headquarters, he examined the epidemic prevention situation one day after the state epidemic prevention work was switched over to the maximum emergency epidemic prevention system to cope with the prevailing epidemic prevention crisis, and learned about the nationwide spread of COVID-19.
A fever whose cause couldn't be identified explosively spread nationwide from late April and more than 350 000 people got fever in a short span of time and at least 162 200 out of them were healed completely. On May 12 alone, some 18 000 persons with fever occurred nationwide and as of now up to 187 800 people are being isolated and treated. Six persons died (one of them tested positive for the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron.)
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