Faced with a COVID-19 crisis, North Korea can either allow Omicron to spread and face the consequences—or open up to aid
said that almost 10 million people in North Korea do not have access to safe drinking water and 16% of the population have no access to basic sanitation facilities, putting them at risk of severe disease.submitted to the U.N. in 2021, North Korea itself reported a “lack of capacity of health personnel, low technical foundation of pharmaceutical and medical appliance plants and shortage of essential medicines.” Pharmacies also reportedly lack medical supplies and storage facilities.
Kim has so far deflected the failure to contain the outbreak on local health officials, and is now relying on his military to battle the epidemic. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un looms on a public television at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on October 10, 2020.It appears that outside help is being allowed to come in. Pyongyang flew three Air Koryo planes into the Chinese city of Shenyang on May 16 that flew back with medical supplies later in the day, according to a South Korean state news agencyciting unnamed sources.
South Korea has also offered to send vaccines, medical personnel, and equipment, but says it has not heard back from the North. The U.S. has said it won’t deliver vaccines to North Korea directly, but is fully supportive of the global COVAX initiative.As the City’s COVID-19 Lockdown Tightens Again, Shanghai Residents Have Been Pushed to Breaking Point
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