According to an official announcement, authorities in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, have imposed a five-day lockdown due to an increase in cases of an unidentified respiratory infection.
According to NK News, which monitors North Korea, the warning did not reference COVID-19 but stated that city residents must remain inside their homes through Sunday night and must adhere to daily temperature monitoring.
The website noted on Tuesday that inhabitants of Pyongyang appeared to be stockpiling products ahead of more stringent regulations. If new lockdowns have been implemented in other parts of the nation, it remains unknown.
The first COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea was reported last year, but by August, the virus had been proclaimed eradicated.
The covert nation never disclosed the number of COVID cases, perhaps due to a lack of resources for broad testing.
Instead, it listed the daily total of patients with fever, which, out of a population of around 25 million, reached 4.77 million. But since July 29, there have been no similar incidents reported.
State-run media have kept up their coverage of anti-pandemic measures to combat respiratory illnesses like the flu, but they haven’t yet covered the lockdown order.
The city of Kaesong, which is close to the South Korean border, reportedly increased public awareness campaigns on Tuesday so that all working class people voluntarily respect anti-epidemic regulations in their job and lives.
