North Korea raises alarm after confirming 1st COVID-19 case

The North's official Korean Central News Agency said tests from an unspecified number of people with fevers in the capital Pyongyang confirmed they were infected with the omicron variant. North Korea had previously claimed a perfect record in keeping out COVID-19, a claim widely doubted by outside experts.

Despite the decision to elevate anti-virus steps, Kim ordered officials to push ahead with scheduled construction, agricultural development and other state projects while bolstering the country's defense postures to avoid any security vacuum. North Korea was one of the last places in the world without an acknowledged virus case. Turkmenistan, a similarly secretive and authoritarian nation in Central Asia, has reported no cases to the World Health Organization, though its claim also is widely doubted by outside experts. In recent months, some Pacific island nations that kept the virus out by their geographic isolation have recorded outbreaks.

Early in 2020 - before the coronavirus spread around the world - North Korea took severe steps to keep out the virus and described them as a matter of “national existence. It quarantined people with symptoms resembling COVID-19 and all but halted cross-border traffic and trade for two years and is even believed to have ordered troops to shoot on sight any trespassers who crossed its borders.

No vaccines needed there, they'll just shoot the infected, followed by family & friends...

Soo they are the only place in the world that hasn't had even 1 case of covid till now, lmao yet they were wearing masks years before it started... Feels like they are hiding something

Shoot them and you’ll have zero again!

hahahaha...

🤣

Send off another rocket that’ll fix it

Lol

I guess the leader is not too scared, from what I see in this photo he's the only one not wearing a mask.

This is great news. Hopefully Covid will kill thousands including Kim and North Korea will no longer be a Nuclear threat to Countries around the world.

Kim why are you lying, do you mean the first case this second, pls.

I command thee, kneel!

They can just nuke covid.

Sorry but don't care

I call bullsh*t.

I don’t believe North Korean’s report same as Chinese reports.

🤣🤣🤣

1st 🤣🤣🤣🤣

'North Korea was one of the last places in the world without an acknowledged virus case' Acknowledged. I'm interested in seeing their reaction.

Well, unless everyone gets covid, plus the vaccines, this won't go away magically.

Time for another missile test

Now, the question will be “Who is that sheep” :)

Just tell the country it's 'mild' and that most people will be fine. When the bodies pile up insist that masking should still be optional because people need to 'live their lives'.

There’s nothing out of NK other than threatening nukes. BS or some sort of propaganda.

Close the doors!!! 😱 😂😂😂

I call bullshit🤣

Honestly, this just goes to show how isolated they are from the rest of the world…

'First'

April 1 is already gone Kim

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