North Korea reports 15 more deaths from “fever” after declaring Covid-19 outbreak

North Korea notified this Sunday 15 kills more for “fever”, three days after the country recently announced its first covid-19 outbreakaffirmed the official agency KCNA.

According to KCNA, 42 people have died to date, 820,620 cases of fever have been recorded, and at least 324,550 people are receiving medical treatment.

The North Korean leader Kim Jong Unsaid on Saturday that the epidemic caused “great turbulence” in the country.

KCNA reported that “all provinces, cities and towns in the country had been completely confined and work, production and residence units had been isolated from each other.”

Despite having activated “his system of maximum emergency quarantine“To stop the expansion of the outbreak among its unvaccinated population, North Korea registers a high number of daily infections.

On Thursday, the isolated communist regime said they had detected the infection with the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron of the virus in several patients with fever and ordered a nationwide lockdown.

Those were the first officially confirmed cases by Pyongyangwhich had self-imposed a blockade with the outside world at the beginning of 2020 that sank the economy and trade.

North Korea has a weak health system, anti-Covid vaccinesantiviral drugs or massive testing capacity, experts say.