From endorsing wearing masks to public health announcements and to recommending eating kimchi, North Korea is pushing out an anti-epidemic campaign to prevent the coronavirus from infiltrating its borders.
North Korea is shoring up its defenses against the potentially deadly coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands across one of its borders and more than a thousand more across the other, where both the South Korean and U.S. militaries have reported cases among their ranks.
The Ministry of Machine-Building Industry urged officials Tuesday to sterilize their offices three times a day, monitor their temperatures at least twice daily and wear sanitary masks that have become a symbol for efforts to battle the new coronavirus. Mask-wearing reminders and other hygienic information are also reportedly being relayed via messages on public transportation and vans equipped with loudspeakers.
As the new coronavirus' spread and death toll surpassed that of the severe acute respiratory syndrome crisis, the World Health Organization has yet to identify a true vaccine. The disease has affected a total of 81,322 people and killed 2,770, according to the latest figures compiled Wednesday by Johns Hopkins University's real-time tracker.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper hosted his South Korea counterpart Monday at the Pentagon, where the two sides agreed to consider scaling back joint exercises until the coronavirus crisis passed. Such drills have already been somewhat diminished as part of a good-faith measure in attempting to rekindle talks with their mutual longtime in the north, which considers the combined maneuvers provocative.
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