Six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread “explosively” across North Korea one day after the country acknowledged its first Covid-19 outbreak.
North Korea likely does not have enough testing supplies and state media reported the cause of the fevers was unclear.
Experts have warned a Covid outbreak could be devastating in a country with a broken health care system and an unvaccinated, malnourished population.
Some experts say the North’s admissions of an outbreak suggested a willingness to receive outside aid.
It previously shunned vaccines offered by the UN-backed Covax programme, possibly because they have monitoring requirements.
Photographer caption: Orphans line up beneath images of the leaders in Nampo, North Korea. Image drawn from a long-term project on the DPRK (North Korea) depicting less commonly shown aspects of daily life.
Photo by Fabian Muir (Sydney, Australia); Nampo, North Korea
Our 15th Annual Photo Contest is now closed. We’ll announce the 60 finalists in March 2018!
We also visited the DMZ (border between Korea N and S) which was a fascinating blend of history, hope for reunification, and propaganda. We could use telescopes to look right into North Korea (middle photo) while freezing our noses off (it was -11*C)
Hello, im kim yo-jong, the youngest daughter of the Kim dynasty, I live in Pyongyang, my brother just disappeared and today is my first day as the supreme leader!
