The World Health Organization has announced that although it does not have access to data on North Korea’s corona outbreak, it is assumed that the crisis is deepening in the country. The North has not vaccinated its 25 million residents because the regime does not want Western vaccines
The World Health Organization has questioned North Korea’s claims of progress in the fight against the outbreak of the corona virus in the isolated country of East Asia. Michael Ryan, head of the World Health Organization’s emergency plan, said they “assume the situation is getting worse, not getting better.”
The North Korean state news agency KCNA, reported 96,610 new “fever” cases and no new deaths on Thursday, resulting in a second consecutive daily number of less than 100,000 cases. But Ryan said they were not “in a position to conduct an appropriate risk assessment of the situation on the ground because they did not have access to the necessary data.”
The World Health Organization added that it is working with neighbors South Korea and China to get a true picture of the state of affairs and that it continues to offer vaccines. But the north has not vaccinated its 25 million inhabitants because the regime does not want Western vaccines. “We have offered assistance on several occasions and we have offered vaccines on three separate occasions. We continue to offer,” Ryan said.
In the days following the outbreak of its first corona virus outbreak, North Korea reported hundreds of thousands of ‘fever cases’, raising the speculation among public health experts who were concerned that the country was unwilling to deal with the outbreak. North Korea reported that the country was able to combat drought and ongoing food shortages as key economic activities such as agriculture intensified. It was also reported that the state also increased the supply of medicines to sick people.