The outbreak has caused concern about serious tragedies in the poor, isolated country with one of the world's worst health care systems and a high tolerance for civilian suffering. Experts say North Korea is almost certainly downplaying the true scale of the viral spread, including a strangely small death toll, to soften the political blow on Kim as he navigates the toughest moment in his decade of rule.
During a ruling party Politburo meeting on Saturday, Kim insisted the country was starting to bring the outbreak under control and called for tightened vigilance to maintain the "affirmative trend" in the anti-virus campaign, KCNA said.
Experts say Kim can't afford to bring the country to a standstill that would unleash further shock on a fragile economy, strained by decades of mismanagement, crippling U.S.-led sanctions over his nuclear weapons ambitions and pandemic border closures.
North Korea's optimistic description of its pandemic response starkly contrasts with outside concerns about dire consequences, including deaths that may reach tens of thousands. The worries have grown as the country apparently tries to manage the crisis in isolation while ignoring help from South Korea and the United States. South Korea's government has said it couldn't confirm reports that North Korea had flown aircraft to bring back emergency supplies from ally China this week.
But experts say the explosive pace of spread and North Korea's lack of a testing regime to detect large numbers of virus carriers in early stages of infection suggest the country's COVID-19 crisis is likely worse than what its fever numbers represent. They say the country's fatalities would be significantly larger than the official tally and that deaths will further surge in coming weeks considering the intervals between infections and deaths.
They will soon call all of the deaths “long naps” or “summer hibernation”.
Why doesn’t the government become pro active about monkey pox before it becomes widespread here? The government is busy wasting time on the Arrive Can app and checking vaccine shots that are passé now. Forget that and let’s focus on keeping monkey pox out of Canada!
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