Pyongyang residents must stay at home until the end of Sunday and submit to temperature checks several times a day. It is unclear whether other parts of the country have also been imposed new lockdowns.
North Korea acknowledged its first COVID-19 outbreak last year. View images from that time here:
How many people had corona among the members at the time, the country has never made. According to observers, due to a lack of resources to conduct widespread testing.
Instead, it reported daily numbers of patients with ‘fever’. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called it “the greatest scourge our country has faced since its inception.”
Fragile health
Kim herself would also have been infected, as would 4.77 million compatriots out of a population of about 25 million. Kim is known as a heavy smoker and he is overweight. Partly for this reason, there are regular speculations about fragile health. During his illness, he did not appear in public for seventeen days.
North Korea said it initially came through the corona pandemic unscathed thanks to strict border controls. For most of the pandemic, North Korea closed its borders to travelers and virtually all foreign trade. Only a limited number of goods from China were allowed to enter the country by train or ship. After the rapidly rising number of infections in May, the country introduced lockdowns.
