North Korea's Covid-19 woes: Korea Herald

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SEOUL - While the entire world was fighting tooth and nail to contain the Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years, North Korea remained tightly closed and insisted it is coronavirus-free in a way t

hat spawned much speculation.

The real figures would likely be much higher than the official numbers reported by Pyongyang's state media, given that North Korea does not have enough medical equipment for testing and tracking infected patients. Its fragile public health infrastructure is also ill-prepared to handle a surge of mass infections.

Kim blamed state agencies and public health sectors for the rapidly worsening virus situation, even though he is apparently responsible for much of the virus woes by pursuing an isolationist policy at the cost of its people's health. Worse, there seems to be no actively operating vaccination program in the North, nor is there reliable data about how many North Koreans have been vaccinated so far. The typically opaque way North Korea handles its affairs does not offer any ground for optimism.

 

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