SEOUL: Authorities in the North Korean capital Pyongyang have ordered a five-day lockdown due to rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, Seoul-based NK News reported on Wednesday (Jan 25), citing a government notice. The notice did not mention COVID-19, but said that residents in the city are r
The secretive country never confirmed how many people caught COVID-19, apparently because it lacks the means to conduct widespread testing.
Instead, it reported daily numbers of patients with fever, a tally that rose to some 4.77 million, out of a population of about 25 million. But it has not reported such cases since Jul 29. State media have continued to report on anti-pandemic measures to battle respiratory diseases, including the flu, but had yet to report on the lockdown order.
On Tuesday, state news agency KCNA said the city of Kaesong, near the border with South Korea, had intensified public communication campaigns"so that all the working people observe anti-epidemic regulations voluntarily in their work and life."
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