N. Korea's escalating virus response raises fear of outbreak
Source: Associated Press
N. Koreas escalating virus response raises fear of outbreak
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
August 6, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea is quarantining thousands of people and shipping food and other aid to a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries, officials said, as the countrys response to a suspected case reinforces doubt about its longstanding claim to be virus-free.
But amid the outside skepticism and a stream of North Korean propaganda glorifying its virus efforts, an exchange between the country and the United Nations is providing new clarity and actual numbers about what might be happening in North Korea, which has closed its borders and cut travel never a free-flowing stream by outsider monitors and journalists.
In late July, North Korea said it had imposed its maximum emergency system to guard against the virus spreading after finding a person with COVID-19 symptoms in Kaesong city, near the border with rival South Korea.
State media reported that leader Kim Jong Un then ordered a total lockdown of Kaesong, and said the suspected case was a North Korean who had earlier fled to South Korea before slipping back into Kaesong last month.
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