President of the State Council of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un. File photo SEUL, May 12. North Korea has reported the first case of coronavirus infection, Yonhap news agency reports, citing North Korean state media. Until this day, the DPRK authorities said that there was no COVID-19 in the country. According to the North Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA), on May 12, a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of the DPRK was convened in the country, it was attended by the leader of the republic, Kim Jong-un.
"In our country, which from February 2020 until now day for two years and three months guarded the emergency anti-epidemic front <…> an emergency has arisen", the report says.
The North Korean agency added that Kim Jong-un called the occurrence of the state of emergency «sudden.» <…> We will overcome the sudden crisis and will certainly win the emergency fight against the virus,» he ordered. Pyongyang, they stated a variant of the BA.2 coronavirus, that is, the Omicron strain. The country's authorities announced the introduction of a virus control system for a «maximum emergency».