North Korea claims no new ‘fever’ cases months after COVID outbreak
03 August 2022 |
12:44 pm
The isolated country has been battling 4.7 million cases of "fever." However, only months after it first acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak, it said the coronavirus crisis was nearly over.
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