DPRK confirms first-ever COVID-19 case: state media
09:41 UTC+8, 2022-05-12
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Thursday confirmed its first-ever COVID-19 case in over two years.
09:41 UTC+8, 2022-05-12
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Thursday confirmed its first-ever COVID-19 case in over two years, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.
The state media said samples were collected from a group of patients in the capital on Sunday and a subvariant of the highly transmissible Omicron version of the coronavirus, known as BA.2, was detected.
The KCNA called it "the most severe national emergency incident."
Source: Xinhua
Editor: Wang Qingchu
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