COVID-19’s Final Frontier: What to Know About North Korea’s ‘Explosive’ Outbreak

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English - May 13, 2022 11:35 - 4 minutes - 8.82 MB - ★★★★ - 63 ratings
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North Korea on Friday went public with its first “explosive” COVID-19 outbreak, reporting six fatalities and raising concerns about the hermit state’s defenses against the coronavirus after two years of claiming to have warded off infections.

The state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) says that one of the six people who died had tested positive for the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.