North Korea claimed on Friday the country's first COVID outbreak began with patients touching 'alien things' near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbour for the wave of infections that hit the isolated country.
North Korea claimed on Friday the country's first COVID outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbor for the wave of infections that hit the isolated country.
The KCNA said all other fever cases reported in the country till mid-April were due to other diseases, but it did not elaborate. North Korea has been battling its first outbreak of COVID infections, declaring a state of emergency in May after years of enforcing tight restrictions to prevent the virus from entering the country.
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