North Korea mobilises army, steps up tracing amid Covid-19 wave

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SEOUL - North Korea has mobilised its military to distribute Covid medications and deployed more than 10,000 health workers to help trace potential patients as it fights a sweeping coronavirus wave, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Tuesday (May 17). The isolated country is grappling with its first acknowledged Covid-19 outbreak, which it confirmed last week, fuelling...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at a politburo meeting of the ruling Workers' Party to inspect the country's antivirus efforts against the coronavirus disease pandemic in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on May 14, 2022.

"A powerful force" of the army's medical corps was immediately deployed to improve the supply of medicines in the capital Pyongyang, the centre of the epidemic, following an order by leader Kim Jong Un, KCNA reported.Some senior members of the ruling Workers' Party's powerful politburo visited pharmacies and medicine management offices to check supply and demand, KCNA said in another dispatch, after Kim criticised ineffective distribution of drugs.

Still, various sectors of the national economy are maintaining production and construction, while taking thorough anti-virus measures, KCNA added. Kim had ordered that limited activity be allowed in each city and county.

 

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