Kim Jon-un orders North Korea shutdown after Omicron’s first case- Corriere.it

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un Command Insurance for all cities
for the country after selecting First case of Covid-19. A dangerous situation arose due to the introduction of a mutant Omicron virus The official Korean News Agency KCNA said that our regions. during a meeting of Workers’ Party in the presence of Kimauthorities have assessed the country’s national quarantine measures at the level of maximum emergency.

The Korean Central News Agency also reported that tests were conducted on Sunday, May 8, on an unspecified number of fever patients in the capital. Pyongyang. That is why Kim Jong Un called for a complete blockade of cities and provinces across the country. The pandemic could have dire consequences because the country has a poor health system: its 26 million residents are believed to be unimmunized.

In these two years, the system has not reported cases of infection from Covid-19 and has not accepted vaccines from abroad, not even those you provide Beijing (North Korea with Eritrea is the only country in the world that has not started a vaccination campaignHe limits himself to keeping the borders closed as he in fact did even before the outbreak of the pandemic for reasons of political security), he writes here Guido Santeviche.

North Korea will likely double its blockade, even if it failsapproach zero covid
from China It does not work against the Omicron variant, said Leif Eric Easley, professor of international studies at Ewa Women’s University in Seoul. For Pyongyang to publicly acknowledge the Omicron issues, the situation must be grave, Easley continues. This does not mean that North Korea will suddenly become open to humanitarian aid and take a more conciliatory line towards it Washington and Seoul. But domestic public opinion may be less interested in nuclear or missile tests when it comes to the urgent threat of the coronavirus.

Policy Zero Covid The Director of the World Health Organization said, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Santevichi writes that there is a social problem with intolerance of the Chinese model. On social media from Shanghai, videos arrive of police systems to keep people in their homes: cages in front of buildings, apartments destroyed by forced disinfection, white-clad policemen threatening people with taking them into quarantine.

Meanwhile, the new president of South Korea, Yoon Seok Yeol, announces that his country will participate for the first time in a multilateral meeting on the state of health emergency. The meeting, which will be held in a virtual format, is scheduled to be attended by the United States and Germany.