The only method of protection against coronavirus that the government has used all these years has been to close borders, which has hit the country's economy hard.
In North Korea, imposed a strict quarantine due to the alleged” first “cases coronavirus infection in the country, reports ВВС .
State media reported an outbreak of the Omicron strain in Pyongyang, but did not name a number of cases.
time the presence of the virus in the country. The country's 25 million people are significantly vulnerable to coronavirus, as North Korea has refused to vaccinate, rejecting proposals from the international community to supply millions of Chinese AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines last year. There are also concerns about North Korea's poor health care system.
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North Korea's main way of fighting Covid-19 all this time was to close its borders – it was one of the first countries to do so in January 2020. At the same time, it halted the supply of essential goods, leading to food shortages and economic devastation.
a proposal by North Korea for humanitarian aid in response to news of the outbreak. Pyongyang has not yet responded.
According to data WHO, since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, more than 500 million people in the world have been infected with coronavirus, of which 6 million have died.
