North Korea COVID-19 outbreak likely 'getting worse' says WHO

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GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) lamented on Wednesday (Jun 1) that it had no access to data about North Korea\u0027s COVID-19 outbreak, but assumed the crisis was deepening, contrary to Pyongyang\u0027s reports of \u0022progress\u0022. North Korea, which announced its first ever coronavirus cases on May 12, s

GENEVA: The World Health Organization lamented on Wednesday that it had no access to data about North Korea's COVID-19 outbreak, but assumed the crisis was deepening, contrary to Pyongyang's reports of"progress".

"Right now we are not in a position to make an adequate risk assessment of the situation on the ground," he said, pointing out that"it is very, very difficult to provide a proper analysis to the world when we don't have access to the necessary data". The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported last Friday that caseloads had fallen for a seventh straight day, with just more than 100,000 new"fever" cases in 24 hours, down from a high of 390,000 daily cases earlier in May.

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