Desk Report
Published: 17 May 2022, 10:59 am
People of NKorea are being tested for COVID-19 || Photo: Xinhua
North
Korea reported six new deaths amid a COVID-19 wave, as the country's military
was mobilized to distribute medical supplies, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.
The state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters reported
269,510 more people with fever symptoms, bringing the total to 1,483,060, while
the death toll grew to 56 as of Monday evening, KCNA said. It did not say how
many people have tested positive for COVID-19.
"A
powerful force" of the army's medical corps was dispatched to improve the
supply of medicines in the capital Pyongyang, the centre of the country's first
acknowledged epidemic, a day after leader Kim Jong Un ordered its immediate
deployment.
KCNA
said the team's mission was aimed at "defusing the public health crisis
prevailing over the capital city of Pyongyang," calling it vital to the
ongoing anti-epidemic campaign._NDTV