A disinfection post in front of a high school in Pyongyang. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 25North Korea registered more than 115,000 new patients with a high temperature in a day, there were no deaths, more than 3.06 million people fell ill with a fever, the North Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA) reported.Earlier it was reported that North Korea, due to the emergence of cases of coronavirus in the country, introduced a «high-level emergency anti-epidemic system», at the direction of Kim Jong-un, a lockdown was introduced in all cities and counties to stop the spread of a «malicious pandemic» and «to eradicate the source of infection» as soon as possible. The number of patients who had a fever from the end of April to May 24 is 3,064,880 people, among them more than 2.7 million people (89.4%) have already recovered, and approximately 323 thousand are still undergoing treatment. Exact data on exactly what proportion of patients with fever are sick with COVID-19 is not given. At the moment, the total number of deaths is 68 people, see Ratio — 0.002%. 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
