According to media reports, the North Korean authorities have lifted the travel restrictions imposed after they admitted two weeks ago that a new outbreak of the coronavirus was recorded, as the authorities of the isolated country assure that the situation is under control.
Pyongyang declared a state of emergency and imposed a national lockdown this month following the outbreak of the crisis, announced May 12, sparking concerns about a lack of vaccines and drugs against COVID-19, adequate medical infrastructure and a potential food crisis that could to cause in the state 25 million inhabitants.
But yesterday, restrictions eased, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo, which cited a source in Beijing, without naming her.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Unification said, however, that he was not in a position to confirm the information.
Kyodo made the remarks after a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party, chaired by leader Kim Jong Un, noted that the situation was “improving”.
Authorities in North Korea have recorded a “fever” patient death in the past 24 hours, citing 100,710 new cases; they reported 390,000 suspected cases last week.
The official death toll stands at 70 dead out of a total of more than three million infections, but those numbers are being disputed by experts, who point out how difficult it is to estimate the spread of the pandemic in the country.
SOURCE: AMPE
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