A government notice announcing a five-day lockdown in Pyongyang cited rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness but made no mention of Covid-19.
SEOUL, South Korea — Authorities in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, have ordered a five-day lockdown due to rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, the Russian Embassy and Seoul-based NK News reported on Wednesday, citing a government notice.
The notice, shared by the embassy on its Facebook page, said that “a special anti-epidemic period has been established” and it called on foreign delegations to keep employees inside. The order also called for individuals to measure their temperatures four times a day and report the results to a hospital by phone., though it cited an “increase in winter cases of recurrent flu and other respiratory diseases.”Aug.
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