North Korea has confirmed six deaths from a fever it describes as having an unknown origin, of whom just one had tested positive for Covid.
The dictatorship’s news agency, KCNA, said 187,800 people were being ‘isolated and treated’ with the fever in the last few weeks and that 350,000 had shown symptoms.
In an update on Friday, KCNA said: ‘A fever whose cause couldn’t be identified spread explosively nationwide from late April.’ Fears have been expressed for the country’s population of 25 million, many of whom are vulnerable due to a lack of any vaccines, poor nutrition and poor healthcare.
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