North Korean chief Kim Jong Un has declared victory over COVID-19, whereas his sister has admitted he suffered “a fever” through the outbreak.
Since North Korea acknowledged an Omicron outbreak of the virus had occurred in May, it has reported about 4.8 million “fever cases” in its inhabitants of 26 million – however solely recognized a fraction of them as COVID-19.
It has claimed the outbreak has been slowing for weeks and simply 74 folks have died.
It is reported Kim has now ordered preventive measures be eased – simply three months after acknowledging there have been some instances.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday that Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, stated her brother had suffered “a fever” and blamed the North Korean outbreak on leaflets flown throughout the border from South Korea.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, issued a press release expressing sturdy remorse over the North’s “extremely disrespectful and threatening comments” that have been based mostly on “ridiculous claims” concerning the supply of its infections.
According to KCNA, in a speech to the nation, Kim stated: “Since we began operating the maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign (in May), daily fever cases that reached hundreds of thousands during the early days of the outbreak were reduced to below 90,000 a month later and continuously decreased, and not a single case of fever suspected to be linked to the evil virus has been reported since 29 July.”
‘Virus-free zone’
“For a country that has yet to administer a single vaccine shot, our success in overcoming the spread of the illness in such a short period of time and recovering safety in public health and making our nation a clean virus-free zone again is an amazing miracle that would be recorded in the world’s history of public health,” he added.
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‘A farce’
During Wednesday’s assembly, Kim Yo Jong referred to as the nation’s virus disaster a “hysteric farce” kicked off by South Korea to escalate confrontation.
She claimed her brother had suffered fever signs and praised his “energetic and meticulous guidance” for bringing an “epoch-making miracle” within the struggle towards COVID-19.
“(South Korean) puppets are still thrusting leaflets and dirty objects into our territory. We must counter it toughly,” she stated.
“We have already considered various counteraction plans, but our countermeasure must be a deadly retaliatory one.”
Source: information.sky.com”