NORTH KOREA ACKNOWLEDGES BREADTH OF OUTBREAK SEOUL, South Korea — The coronavirus has been spreading across North Korea “explosively” since late last month, killing six people and leaving 187,800 p

NORTH KOREA ACKNOWLEDGES BREADTH OF OUTBREAK SEOUL, South Korea — The coronavirus has been spreading across North Korea “explosively” since late last month, killing six people and leaving 187,800 p

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NORTH KOREA ACKNOWLEDGES BREADTH OF OUTBREAK

 

SEOUL, South Korea — The coronavirus has been spreading across North Korea “explosively” since late last month, killing six people and leaving 187,800 people in quarantine, the country’s state media reported on Friday.

 

Health officials made the rare admission of an emerging public health crisis after the country reported its first outbreak of the virus — after long insisting it had no infections and refusing outside humanitarian aid to fight any spread. The announcement of fatalities came as the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, was visiting the national disease-control headquarters on Thursday, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said.