North Korea reports 167,650 more people with fever amid Covid-19 outbreak

The local media did not report how many of those people had tested positive for the coronavirus.

North Korea reported 167,650 more people had fever symptoms and one more person had died amid the country's first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak, state news agency KCNA said on Monday.

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, a worker in protective gear stands on an empty sidewalk in Pyongyang. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

It did not report how many of those people had tested positive for the coronavirus.