SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said on Friday (Aug 26) that the fever cases it detected earlier this week were found to be influenza, and not a Covid-19 resurgence as initially suspected. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - North Korea said on Friday that the fever cases it detected earlier this week were found to be influenza, and not a Covid-19 resurgence as initially suspected.
North Korea refers to"fever patients" rather than"Covid-19 patients" in case reports, apparently due to a lack of testing capacity. But on Friday, it said they were actually not Covid-19 infections, and that the lockdown in the area had been lifted. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un - who also fell ill during the outbreak - declared victory over the virus earlier this month and ordered the lifting of the country's"maximum emergency epidemic prevention system" as officially reported cases fell to zero.
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