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View of Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. File photo SEoul, May 14. North Korea registered 17,400 new patients with a fever and 21 more deaths on Friday, more than 520,000 people fell ill in total, the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports. It is reported that for 13 On May 17, 17,400 more patients with high fever were identified in the DPRK, and another 21 people died. On May 12, DPRK President Kim Jong-un visited the State Emergency Anti-Epidemic Headquarters and got acquainted with the situation in the country in connection with the spread of the disease in the country, and on May 13 held an emergency meeting Politburo of the Central Committee of the Party. Earlier, the DPRK for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic reported the discovery of coronavirus patients in the country. According to the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), «an unfamiliar fever» has begun to spread in the country since late April. recovered, more than 288 thousand people are still in isolation and undergoing treatment. In total, 27 people died, while in one of them the analysis revealed a variant of the omicron BA.2 coronavirus strain, the so-called «stealth omicron». » /> Research Institute «Microbe» linked cases of «unknown fever» in the DPRK with COVID-19