More than 296 thousand cases of «unknown fever» were detected in North Korea per day

View of Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. File photo SEoul, May 15. North Korea registered more than 296,000 new patients with high fever and another 15 deaths on Saturday, more than 820,000 people fell ill in total, the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports. Previously, the DPRK for the first time Since the beginning of the pandemic, it has reported the discovery of coronavirus cases in the country. According to the CTC, since the end of April, an «unfamiliar fever» has begun to spread in the country. From a number of North Korean state media reports, it can be concluded that the coronavirus is spreading in the country, but exact data on exactly how many patients can be sick with COVID-19 is not given. As follows from the KCNA report «on the situation with the spread and treatment of the pandemic», According to the State Emergency Control Headquarters of the DPRK, from the evening of May 13 to 18.00 (12.00 Moscow time) on May 14, the number of «patients with fever» in the country increased by more than 296 thousand people, another 15 people died. More than 252,000 patients have recovered. The total number of patients who had a fever from late April to May 14 is more than 820 thousand people, among them 496 thousand have recovered, and more than 324 thousand are still being treated. At the moment, 42 people have died. In at least one of them, the analysis revealed a variant of the omicron BA.2 coronavirus strain, the so-called «stealth omicron.» counties have been placed under lockdown to stop the spread of the virus and «eradicate the source of the infection» as soon as possible. the fight against coronavirus