More than 269 thousand cases of «unknown fever» were detected in North Korea per day

A disinfection post in front of a high school in Pyongyang. File photoSEUL, May 17.North Korea on Monday registered more than 269 thousand new patients with high fever and eight more dead, in total more than 1 million 483 thousand people fell ill, the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports. Earlier, the DPRK for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic reported the discovery of coronavirus cases in the country. According to the North Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA), «an unfamiliar fever» began to spread in the country since the end of April. From a number of state media reports in North Korea, it can be concluded that the coronavirus is spreading in the country, but exact data on exactly what proportion of patients with fever are 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 15 to 18.00 (12.00 Moscow time) on May 16, the number of «patients with fever» in the country increased by more than 269 thousand people, eight more people died, more than 170 thousand patients recovered .The number of patients who had a fever from the end of April to May 14 is more than 1 million 483 thousand people, among them more than 819 thousand have recovered, more than 663 thousand are still being treated. At the moment, the total death toll is 56 people. At least one of them was reported to have tested positive for a variant of the omicron BA.2 coronavirus strain, the so-called «stealth omicron.» and counties have been placed under lockdown to stop the spread of the virus and «root out the source of the infection» as soon as possible.