6 dead of ‘fever’ as Covid hits North Korea; US says ‘no current plans’ to share vaccines with the nation

North Korea said on Friday that six people who were sick had died, with one of them tested positive for Covid-19, the official Korean Central News Agency reported as AFP news agency.”Fever whose cause cannot be identified explosively spread nationally from the end of April … Six people were killed (one of them tested positive for the sub-variant of BA.2 from Omicron,” he said.

Around 187,800 people are currently being treated separately after an unknown fever has “explosively spread nationally” since the end of April, the official KCNA news agency reported.Around 350,000 people have shown signs of fever, including 18,000 who just reported such symptoms on Tuesday, said KCNA. Around 162,200 of them have been treated so far, but did not determine how much positively tested for COVID-19.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the Anti-Virus Command Center on Tuesday to examine the situation and response after stating “the most severe state emergency” and ordered a national locking on Thursday.He “criticized that the spread of fever simultaneously with the capital area as a center shows that there is a vulnerable point in the epidemic prevention system that we have made,” KCNA said.

Kim chose actively isolating and caring for people who have a fever as a top priority, while calling for designing scientific care methods and “tactics” in the lightning “and strengthen steps to supply drugs.In other delivery, KCNA said the health authority seeks to regulate the testing and treatment system and improve disinfection work.

Meanwhile, the United States said that they did not have a plan now to share the Covid-19 vaccine with North Korea, the Press Secretary of the White House Jen Psaki said on Thursday as Per Reuters. The spokesman said North Korea had repeatedly rejected the vaccine contribution from the Global Covax vaccine project, and added, referring to the country with the initials of its official name: “While the US currently has no plans to share vaccines with DPRK, we continue to support international efforts aimed at providing critical humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable North Koreans. “