‘Miraculous miracle’: King Jong Un declares North Korea COVID-free – but reports emerge that he has a ‘fever’ | World News
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared victory over COVID-19, while his sister admitted he had a “fever” during the outbreak.
Are from North Korea admitting an outbreak of the Omicron virus occurred in May, it reported about 4.8 million “febrile cases” out of its population of 26 million – but identified only a fraction of those as COVID-19.
It has claimed that the outbreak has been slowing down for weeks and only 74 people have died.
Reportedly, Kim has now ordered the easing of precautionary measures – just three months after admitting there were several cases.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday that Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, said her brother had developed a “fever” and blamed North Korea’s outbreak on the outbreak. flyers are flown across the border. south Korea.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, issued a statement expressing regret over North Korea’s “extremely disrespectful and threatening comments” based on “unreasonable statements.” reason” about their source of infection.
The leader smokes during the meeting to discuss COVID
According to KCNA, in his address to the nation, Kim said: “Since we started to carry out the maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign (in May), daily fever cases have reached hundreds of thousands in The early days of the outbreak dropped below 90,000 a month later and continued to decline, and no cases of fever suspected of being linked to the monstrous virus have been reported since July 29. “
‘Virus-free area’
“For a country that has yet to use a single shot of a vaccine, our success in overcoming the spread of the disease in such a short time and restoring public health safety. and making our country a virus-free region is amazing, he added.
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‘A farce’
During Wednesday’s meeting, Kim Yo Jong called the virus crisis in the country a “crazy farce” unleashed by South Korea to escalate confrontation.
She claimed her brother was suffering from fever symptoms and praised his “energetic and meticulous guidance” for delivering “epoch-making miracles” in the fight against COVID-19.
“The (Korean) puppets are still throwing leaflets and dirty objects into our territory. We have to fight it firmly,” she said.
“We have come up with various countermeasures, but our countermeasure must be a deadly retaliation.”
