VOA: North Korea's Kim Orders Lockdown as First COVID-19 Outbreak Is Confirmed
Seoul — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a nationwide lockdown Thursday to try to contain a highly transmissible variant of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, which was confirmed in the country this week for the first time.
The official Korean Central News Agency said genetic sequencing analysis of samples collected from a group of people on Sunday in Pyongyang had identified the BA.2 strain, also known as the “stealth omicron” for its relative difficulty of detection.
While calling the situation a “most critical emergency,” the report did not say how many infections had been confirmed nor how many people had been tested.
North Korea has maintained a strict border closure since February 2020 and instituted its own quarantine measures amid the pandemic, which have now officially been breached.
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WNU Editor: The North Korean population is not vaccinated against Covid. Fortunately. The strain that is spreading throughout North Korea has been identified as the "weaker" stealth omicron variant.
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