According to Xinhua News Agency, citing North Korean media, a total of 1.214 million fever cases have been reported in North Korea, of which 649,000 have been cured. The number of people cured every day is staggering. There were 393,000 fever patients, 153,000 cured patients, and 8 deaths. The scale of fever patients far exceeded the epidemic in Shanghai.
North Korea covers an area of 123,000 square kilometers, almost twice the size of Shanghai and one-third the size of Taiwan Province of China. The population of the three places is similar, at 25 million. Right now, the epidemic in Shanghai has been initially brought under control, Taiwan is still at its peak, and North Korea’s action is a shocking epidemic, and the data makes people feel caught off guard. It should be the statistical data after the large-scale dissemination. Otherwise, it cannot be more serious than Shanghai and Taiwan in the first place.
North Korea is short of anti-epidemic resources, and I am afraid that there are not enough test kits. Except for the results of the genetic identification of the Ba.2 virus strain at the beginning, the other reported data are all new fever. For patients, there is no way to know the data of asymptomatic infections. Currently, we can only fight the epidemic based on fever data. I hope that the North Korean epidemic will lead to an inflection point as soon as possible!
