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North Korea calls for stronger Covid-19 measures

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for more stringent measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a top-level meeting he presided. – EPA pic, April 12, 2020.

NORTH Korea called for stronger measures against the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic at a meeting presided by leader Kim Jong-un, state media reported today, without acknowledging whether the country had reported any infections. The already isolated, nuclear-armed North quickly shut down its borders after the virus was first detected in neighbouring China in January, and imposed strict containment measures.

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