International health organizations are concerned that despite North Korea's insistence that it has the Covid 19 outbreak under control, limited vacci
International health organizations are concerned that despite North Korea’s insistence that it has the Covid 19 outbreak under control, limited vaccines, rudimentary medical facilities and the poor health of the general population make the isolated state the ideal environment for new variants of the virus to emerge, reported DW. Virologists point out that South Africa has had problems halting the spread of the disease and has been the source of at least one new mutation that has since spread around the world. And while South Africa has accepted outside assistance and aggressively fought the virus, North Korea has opted for isolation and, in the early phases of the pandemic, rebuffed offers of vaccines and other medical equipment, reported DW.
In mid-May, the government finally admitted what virologists had always assumed: that Covid 19 was spreading rapidly among local population and earlier reports of unspecified “fevers” across the country were cases of the virus. Despite those offers of assistance from foreign governments and health agencies, Pyongyang claims that its coronavirus infection rate is in steady decline. On Tuesday, state media reported 61,730 new cases of “fever,” bringing the total number of cases since late April to 4.19 million. That is approximately one in six people of the 25.78 million population, now outside aid organizations are not permitted to enter the secretive state to gauge the true scale of the problem and there is little faith in official figures and there is growing concern that the virus may be evolving, as reported by DW.
Watch against contagion
In the last 24 hours 148 new cases of contagion and 0 deaths caused by Covid 19 were reported by State and Health Authorities. Contagion is being watched in Guanajuato and cases of contagion reported are below 150 in the last 24 hours, while there were 0 deaths reported. Authorities maintain the color of activities in the GREEN easing restrictions on activities, both leisure and work.
State Health Authorities insist that Guanajuato should maintain health protection.
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