{"id":80452,"date":"2022-08-11T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=80452"},"modified":"2022-08-11T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:38:16","slug":"north-korean-leader-declares-shining-victory-over-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=80452","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader declares ‘shining victory’ over Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday declared a “shining victory” over Covid-19, after officials reported no new cases of the virus for nearly two weeks.<\/p>\n

Presiding over a meeting with health workers and scientists, Kim announced a “victory… in the war against the malignant pandemic disease,” according to the government news agency KCNA.<\/p>\n

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The isolated country, which has maintained a rigid coronavirus blockade since the start of the pandemic, announced an Omicron outbreak in the capital Pyongyang in May and activated a “maximum emergency epidemic prevention system”.<\/p>\n

North Korea refers to “fever patients” rather than “Covid patients” in case reports, apparently due to a lack of testing capacity.<\/p>\n

Since July 29, Pyongyang has been reporting new no cases of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday declared a “shining victory” over Covid-19, after officials reported no new cases of the virus for nearly two weeks. Presiding over a meeting with health workers and scientists, Kim announced a “victory… in the war against the malignant pandemic disease,” according to the government news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":80453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n