The news calls it fever, but to make it clear to the world that it is Covid the masks appeared everywhere in the images coming from North Korea are enough. Even the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appeared on TV with a mask confirming what was denied until less than a week ago. Cases of Covid appeared overnight in the country that had never officially reported one. More than a million are the positives, even if they are not defined that way here, reported by the bulletins and 50 deaths have been reported.
Kim Jong-un has chosen the path of criticism, very hard, ai government officials that they would not respond adequately to what was happening. He ordered the army to help distribute medicines and ordered pharmacies to remain open 24 hours a day. In Kim’s classic blame it these officials are responsible for the situation, because “they have not rolled up their sleeves and have not adequately assessed the severity of the crisis “.
According to those who know the country, there are no tampons and treatments for Covid. The health system is generally poorly equipped and unwilling no vaccines offered by the Covax international system, South Korea and China. From China, however a friend, the country will learn. At least that’s what Kim announced. So North Korea faces a long period of lockdown. In fact, China maintains the zero Covid policy by closing everything to the first reported case. The Omicron variant would have come from the Chinese border and from the smuggling that passes through here. Impossible to stop the virus that does not know the boundaries of the dictatorship.
Source: Vanity Fair
