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.

Published on: May 23, 2022, 03:04:15 IST

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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.

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