North Korea said on Friday that the country’s first Covid-19 outbreak began when patients touched “foreign things” near the South Korean border, apparently blaming the neighboring country for the wave of infections.
State news agency KCNA, in announcing the results of an investigation, ordered people to “carefully deal with the windswept alien stuff and other weather events and balloons in areas located along the border and along the border”.
The agency did not directly mention South Korea, but North Korean refugees and activists have been releasing balloons, flyers and humanitarian aid south of the heavily fortified border for decades.
South Korea’s Ministry of Unification, which handles inter-Korean relations, said there was “no possibility” that the virus had entered North Korea through flyers sent across the border.
According to KCNA, an 18-year-old soldier and a 5-year-old kindergarten student who came into contact with unidentified materials “on a hill around barracks and residential areas” in East Kumgang county in early April had symptoms and subsequently tested positive. for the coronavirus.
KCNA said all other fever cases reported in the country up to mid-April were due to other illnesses, but did not elaborate.
source: Noticias
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