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North Korea Cites Explosive National Covid-19 Outbreak, Reports First Death
Malnutrition, shortage of respirators and testing facilities threatens high mortality
Workers disinfected escalators at a department store in Pyongyang in March.
PHOTO: KIM WON JIN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
SEOUL—North Korea reported its first death from a Covid-19 outbreak that it said for the first time had rapidly spread throughout the country.
More than 350,000 people contracted a fever that “explosively spread nationwide” from late April and 187,800 are currently being isolated and treated, Pyongyang’s state media said Friday. The report said six people have died and one tested positive for the BA.2 Omicron variant. It didn’t say whether the other people who died were tested.
Leader Kim Jong Un visited the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters on Thursday, ordering the lockdown of cities and counties to curb the spread of the “malicious virus,” according to state media. People in factories and residential units were told to isolate themselves from each other in a move echoing China’s “closed-loop” strategy to stop the virus from spreading.
It is the most important challenge of the party to “reverse the immediate public health crisis situation at an early date, restore the stability of epidemic prevention and protect the health and wellbeing of our people,” Mr. Kim said, according to the state media report.
North Korea hasn’t vaccinated its population against Covid-19 and remains particularly vulnerable to the pandemic because of its poor healthcare infrastructure and widespread malnourishment.
The country has rejected nearly two million Covid-19 vaccines promised by the Covax initiative, a program financed mostly by Western governments to help lower-income countries with inoculations.
The U.S. doesn’t have plans to share vaccines with North Korea but supports international efforts aimed at providing humanitarian aid to vulnerable North Koreans, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said during a Thursday briefing.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared wearing a mask on state TV as Pyongyang reported its first local case of Covid-19. The country, which had so far claimed to be Covid-free, has poor health infrastructure to fight outbreaks. Photo: Associated PressTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
North Korea says the first locally transmitted case of the virus—an Omicron infection—was confirmed on May 8 in Pyongyang, more than two years after the country closed its borders in the early days of the pandemic. Health experts outside the country say the virus likely began circulating in North Korea much earlier.
Mr. Kim was seen wearing a face mask for the first time in public on Wednesday when he presided over a Politburo meeting to discuss the Covid-19 outbreak. Despite locking down major cities, Mr. Kim ordered officials to push ahead with scheduled construction, agricultural development and other state projects, in an apparent effort to prevent further damage to the economy.
During the Politburo meeting, he told officials to bolster the country’s defense posture to avoid a security vacuum. On Thursday afternoon, North Korea test-fired three ballistic missiles, the latest in a flurry of recent tests.
North Korea has taken some of the most draconian steps seen anywhere in the world to try to keep the virus out, describing it as a matter of national survival. Early on in the pandemic, the country quarantined people with symptoms resembling Covid-19 and reportedly ordered troops to shoot on sight anyone who attempted to cross its borders.
North Korea is one of the last places in the world to acknowledge a Covid-19 outbreak. China, which is grappling with its own Omicron outbreak, has pledged its “full support and assistance” to North Korean authorities.
Experts warn that with a severe shortage of respirators and testing facilities, North Korea could see a large increase in deaths, especially among people in rural areas who don’t have enough food.
North Korea may have to accept humanitarian aid from China and other countries as it struggles to overcome its first Covid-19 outbreak, North Korea watchers say. But it is unlikely that the country will shift away from accelerating its nuclear weapons program, in an effort to rally domestic support for Mr. Kim.
North Korea has projected an image of a successful fight against Covid-19. A recent military parade featured tens of thousands of maskless spectators. The large-scale event could have triggered a nationwide outbreak in North Korea, considering Pyongyang said the spread began in late April, according to Cheong Seong-chang, a senior research fellow at Seoul-based think tank Sejong Institute.
“North Korea is likely to experience great confusion in the coming months trying to suppress the Omicron outbreak,” Mr. Cheong said. “But in order to boost morale, North Korea may put more focus on missile and nuclear tests.”
Write to Dasl Yoon at dasl.yoon@wsj.com
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