North Korea declared a state of emergency on Sunday after a person in the country was suspected of being positive for COVID-19.
Sunday local time, KCNA state news agency reported North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
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Kim declared a state of emergency and imposed a blockade on Kaesong, apparently calling it a “critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country.”
“An emergency event occurred in Kaesong City, where a fugitive who went south three years ago, a person suspected of having been infected with the vicious virus returned on July 19 after illegally crossing the demarcation line,” KCNA said.
It is not clear if the person has been screened for COVID-19 yet. According to KCNA, “Uncertain results were obtained from various medical checks of organ secretion and blood from that person’s upper respiratory tract.”
North Korea has imposed strict border restrictions since the start of the pandemic. The country’s residents were under a massive quarantine order that was recently eased.
North Korea claims that there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 within its borders.
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