South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has today offered to send a vaccine against covid-19 to North Korea, which this week recognized its first coronavirus outbreak.
“President Yoon Suk-yeol plans to provide the vaccine and other medical supplies,” government spokesman Kang In-sun said in a statement. Said. “There will be talks with the North Korean side to discuss the details,” he said.
After boasting of being unscathed for the first two years of the pandemic, North Korea confirmed its first case of covid last Thursday (12) and the first death from the disease this Friday.
Five more deaths of febrile patients are under investigation, and South Korean agency Yonhap says the communist country has already identified more than 18,000 infected.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered a nationwide curfew but has yet to respond to Seoul’s vaccine offer. According to Pyongyang, more than 187,000 people are in quarantine with suspected covid.
source: Noticias
