Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, strongly rebuked the supply of COVID-19-related medicines in a timely manner.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced that an emergency meeting of the Politburo was convened yesterday (15th), presided over by General Secretary Kim Jong-un, and a project to discuss quarantine measures was carried out.
General Secretary Kim even issued an emergency order for the Politburo of the Party Central Committee to “urgently release and urgently supply national reserve medicines in order to quickly contain and manage the spread of the epidemic,” and instructed “all pharmacies to move to a 24-hour operating system.” It has not yet been mobilized and the execution has not been carried out immediately,” he pointed out.
General Secretary Kim pointed out that "the various negative phenomena that occur in the handling and sales of pharmaceuticals nationwide have not been corrected," and "the negligence of the head of the Central Prosecutor's Office, who does not feel any responsibility or remorse and does not play any role even in a severe situation, He was harshly reprimanded for negligence," the Central News Agency reported.
General Secretary Kim issued a special order to the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea to immediately stabilize the drug supply business in Pyongyang City by putting in the strong capabilities of the military sector of the People's Army.
North Korea said that from 6 p.m. the day before to 6 p.m. yesterday, there were 392,920 new cases of fever nationwide and 8 people died.
The total number of deaths reported by North Korea so far stands at 50.