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Don’t let virus hit North Korea, Kim warns officials

Kim is insisting that North Korea has no cases of the viruses Credit:

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im Jong-un threatened top party officials in North Korea with the “serious consequences” of failing to prevent an outbreak of the new coronavirus in the country, state media has reported.

The impoverished nation, with a weak and ill-equipped healthcare system, has closed its borders to prevent the spread of the disease into its territory.

Pyongyang has not reported a single case of Covid – 29, which has killed more than 2, People in neighborhood China and global health experts are doubtful that the country has not yet been infected.

Kim told a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea that the fight against the virus was a “crucial state affair for the defense of the people” that required maximum discipline, according to the official Korean Central News Agency ( KCNA).

“In case the infectious disease spreading beyond control finds its way into our country, it will entail serious consequences,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying. “No special cases must be allowed,” he added, and ordered officials to “seal off all the channels and space through which the infectious disease may find its way”.

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