Seoul: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has told officials “in his own style” after he turned down offers of some foreign anti-Covid-19 vaccines through a United Nations-backed vaccination program. Ordered to run an epidemic prevention campaign. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday that during a Politburo meeting on Thursday, Kim said officials “should keep in mind that it is paramount to take stringent measures to contain the epidemic, with no laxity at all.” There should be.”
KCNA reported that Kim was instructed to deal with the epidemic in his own style, emphasizing the need to increase the technical measures, materials, and qualifications of health workers to prevent the virus. Kim has earlier called on North Koreans to be prepared for a prolonged extension of COVID-19 restrictions and indicated that borders would remain closed despite a deteriorating economy and a food crisis.
North Korea has imposed strict isolation rules and closed borders to prevent transmission of the virus, although its claims of being infection-free are viewed with suspicion. UNICEF said on Tuesday that North Korea offered to give the roughly three million Cyanovac vaccines it had allocated to severely affected countries instead. UNICEF buys and supplies vaccines to affected countries under its Covax initiative. North Korea was due to receive a dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine under the Kovax initiative, which has been delayed.
