This was reported by TASS with reference to the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (CTAC).

It is noted that the disease is suspected in a person who arrived in the DPRK from South Korea on July 19.

The patient has symptoms similar to coronavirus infection.

On July 3, DPRK leader Kim Jong-un held an expanded meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party (WPK), during which measures to counter the spread of coronavirus were discussed.