A disinfection post in front of a high school in Pyongyang. File photo SEUL, May 21. North Korea registered more than 219,000 new patients with a high fever and one more dead in a day, more than 2.46 million people fell ill in total, Yonhap News Agency reports citing the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).North Korea, due to the emergence of cases of coronavirus in the country, has launched a «top-level emergency anti-epidemic system», at the direction of Kim Jong-un, a lockdown has been introduced in all cities and counties to stop the spread of a «malicious pandemic» and «to eradicate the source of infection » in the shortest possible time. The number of patients who had a fever from the end of April to May 20 is more than 2.46 million people, among them more than 1.76 million have already recovered, and approximately 692 thousand are still being treated. Exact data on exactly what proportion of patients with fever are sick with COVID-19 is not given. At the moment, the total death toll is 66 people. It was reported that in at least one of them, the analysis revealed a variant of the omicron BA.2 coronavirus strain, the so-called «stealth omicron». >Media: North Korea does not respond to Seoul's offer to help fight COVID-19
