Xinhua News Agency, Pyongyang, May 16 (Reporter Jiang Yaping) According to the report of the North Korean National Emergency Epidemic Prevention Command quoted by the Korean Central News Agency on the 16th, from the evening of the 14th to the evening of the 15th, there were 393,000 new cases of fever in North Korea.
On the 15th, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong-un once again presided over an emergency consultation meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to discuss the issue of epidemic prevention.
According to the report, within 24 hours from the evening of the 14th to the evening of the 15th, a total of 153,000 cases were cured and 8 died.
From the end of April to May 15, a total of 1.214 million fever cases were reported nationwide, of which 649,000 have been cured.
According to the Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong-un once again presided over an emergency consultation meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on the 15th, focusing on discussing the overall epidemic prevention situation in recent days.
After the meeting, Kim Jong-un went to several pharmacies in Pyongyang to learn about the supply and sales of pharmaceuticals.
According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on the 12th, North Korea’s national emergency epidemic prevention department on the 8th of this month tested some patients with fever symptoms in Pyongyang and confirmed that someone was infected with the Omikron virus.
This is the first time North Korea has reported a confirmed case of the new crown on its own since the global outbreak of the new crown epidemic.