Over 187,000 North Koreans Placed Under Isolation as Fever Spreads ‘Explosively’: Report

Staff of the Pyongyang Primary School No. 4 spray disinfectant in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 30, 2021. Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo

North Korean state-run media said Friday that about 187,800 people were being “isolated and treated” for fever that has spread “explosively” nationwide since late April.

This comes a day after Pyongyang confirmed its first official cases of COVID-19 and moved into a “maximum emergency epidemic prevention system.”