North Korea says its Covid-19 outbreak is improving and it is considering revising its anti-epidemic regulations.
State-run media in the secretive East Asian country reported Sunday that leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials had assessed the pandemic situation as"improved" and discussed adjusting containment measures. North Korea reported more than 89,500 new"fever cases" and 106,390 recoveries between Friday and Saturday evening nationwide, according to the Korean Central News Agency . It did not say whether there had been additional deaths.North Korea is facing a Covid disaster.
Read MoreThe country's latest death toll, reported on Friday, was 69 and the fatality rate was 0.002%, according to KCNA.The country of 25 million reported what it said were its first cases of Covid-19 on May 12 and declared the situation a"major national emergency," swiftly placing all cities into lockdown and ordering"people with fever or abnormal symptoms" into quarantine.
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