Yoon offers to send COVID
2024-09-22 11:24:32 [资讯] 来源:CCTV News Channel live broadcast
President Yoon Suk-yeol presides over an economic monitoring meeting at the Korea Center for International Finance building in Seoul's Jung District, Friday, in this photo provided by the presidential office. Yonhap |
President Yoon Suk-yeol offered to send COVID-19 vaccines to North Korea, Friday, his spokesperson said, a day after Pyongyang acknowledged an outbreak for the first time since the pandemic began.
After claiming for over two years that it was coronavirus-free, the North reported its first case of COVID-19, Thursday, saying the country declared the implementation of the "maximum emergency" virus control system.
"President Yoon Suk-yeol plans to provide the North Korean people with COVID-19 vaccines and other medical supplies," presidential spokesperson Kang In-sun said in a statement. "Suspected cases are said to be rising explosively in North Korea recently due to a massive COVID-19 outbreak. We will hold discussions with the North Korean side about details."
North Korea issued a second report on the outbreak Friday, claiming that six people had died after a fever spread "explosively," affecting 350,000 people since last month.
Allies' North Korea policy at crossroads amid COVID spread in Pyongyang 2022-05-13 15:47 | North Korea N. Korea reports 6 COVID-19 deaths amid 'explosive spread of fever' 2022-05-13 09:00 | North Korea
One of the people who died was confirmed to have been infected with the Omicron variant, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
During a visit to the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters Thursday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "criticized that the simultaneous spread of fever with the capital area as a center shows that there is a vulnerable point in the epidemic prevention system we have already established," the KCNA said.
A presidential official told reporters that North Korea has yet to respond to South Korea's offer and that the decision to send aid was not discussed in advance with the United States. (Yonhap)
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