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Today (15th), I will also tell you about the North Korean corona situation.

North Korean authorities announced that 15 more people have died and the number of fever cases has risen by 300,000.

It is still counting the number of fever patients, not confirmed cases, and several folk remedies are being announced.



First news, this is reporter Kang Cheong-wan.



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Medical staff wearing masks are having a meeting at Kim Man-yu Hospital in Pyongyang.



The explanation of Chosun Central TV is that the rapid consultation and diagnosis team has been operating every day since the transition to the maximum emergency quarantine system due to the infiltration of Corona 19.



[Chosun Central TV: (Rapid Consultation and Diagnosis Team) is planning and carrying out an organizational project to analyze the spread of infectious diseases, disease course characteristics, and medical monitoring and active treatment measures in the units and regions in charge.



] It was announced that there were 296,180 new cases of fever, or fever, and 15 additional deaths nationwide.



It is announcing the number of patients with fever for the third day, not confirmed cases, but it seems that even a confirmed diagnosis is not being made properly due to insufficient equipment and insufficient testing capacity.



The cumulative death toll announced by North Korea was 42, and the cumulative number of fevers reached 820,000, which is more than 3% of the North Korean population.



Free Asia Broadcasting, an American media against North Korea, reported that some of the Sinuiju Border Guard soldiers were also infected, and most of them were participants in the military parade held in Pyongyang last month.



North Korea seemed to distance itself from direct deaths from COVID-19, and claimed that it lacked understanding of stealth omicrons, and that a large proportion of deaths were due to drug negligence.



[Chosun Central TV: The mortality rate is 75% lower than that of the delta mutant virus, and 93% of the infected are mild…

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North Korea continues its propaganda, emphasizing that the enemies more dangerous than a malicious virus are a lack of faith and a lack of will.



The Labor Newspaper, the official newspaper of the Labor Party, introduced folk remedies such as taking honey when coughing and eating willow leaves in hot water three times a day as evidence of the poor medical environment.



(Video editing: Park Chun-bae)