This photo provided by the North Korean government shows deserted street in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, May 17, 2022. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.
North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May.
"The organizational power and unity unique to the society of is fully displayed in the struggle to bring forward a victory in the emergency anti-epidemic campaign by fully executing the anti-epidemic policies of the party and the state," the official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday. The zero cases have been widely expected as North Korea's daily fever caseload has been nosediving in recent days -- there were three reported cases on Friday and 11 on Thursday -- from a peak of about 400,000 a day in May. The country, which lacks test kits, has identified only a fraction of its 4.8 million fever patients as confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Shin Young-jeon, a professor of preventive medicine at Seoul's Hanyang University, said North Korea would know that zero cases doesn't mean it has no COVID-19 patients because there are likely asymptomatic cases. He said North Korea won't likely announce it has officially overcome the pandemic any time soon because of worries about a resurgence.
The North Korea-China border has been largely shut for more than 2 1/2 years, except for a few months when it reopened earlier this year.
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