Have you noticed that there has been no mention of coronavirus victims in North Korea?
Why not? After all, every country and territory within a 3000km radius of North Korea – except sparsely populated Mongolia – has confirmed at least one case.
Seoul-based website Daily NK, which reports on North Korea using sources from inside the hermit country, said as of February 7th five people had already died in the critical northwestern city of Sinuiju, the largest Chinese city in the region and a key trading route between the two countries.
The news site said authorities had “ordered public health officials in Sinuiju to quickly dispose of the bodies and keep the deaths secret from the public”.
Even though North Korea sealed off its 141km border with China and banned tourists from China and cancelled all flights between Beijing and Pyongyang, the virus reportedly spread to North Korea through illegal trading across the border.
“Several suspected coronavirus infections have occurred in North Korea even though it shut all its borders,” wrote Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s biggest-selling newspaper. “The infections most likely spread through porous parts of the border with China that see plenty of smuggling and other clandestine traffic.”
North Korean officials and media continue to publicly deny any outbreak of the virus within its borders, but with it’s notoriously poor medical capabilities, I’m assuming the death toll in North Korea is climbing rapidly.
https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/keep-the-bodies-secret-virus-spreads/3940906/
As of Feb 7th, Five N. Koreans had reportedly already died from coronavirus infections
https://www.dailynk.com/english/sources-five-north-koreans-died-coronavirus-infections/
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