South Korea Offers Medical Aid to North Korea Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

Read MoreNorth Korea is reportedly experiencing its largest COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began. On Sunday, the country’s state media reported 15 new deaths and 296,180 more people with “fever” symptoms nationwide, raising its death toll to 42 since it entered a state of emergency on Thursday, South Korea’s Yonhap News reported.
On May 12, North Korea entered a “severe emergency” after acknowledging its first official cases of COVID-19, with leader Kim Jong Un ordering a nationwide lockdown.
Since the start of the pandemic, North Korea has claimed to have kept the virus at bay despite it spreading rapidly across the globe. However, the country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) confirmed several people in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, had contracted the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as BA.2.
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