North Korea reported more than 392,000 new fever cases detected Sunday, as an additional eight deaths brought the toll of known deaths in its “explosive” fever epidemic to 50, according to state media. Data released by official KCNA on Monday said a cumulative 1,213,550 people in the North had been …
Read More »Death Toll Climbs as North Korea Scrambles to Stock Medicine
North Korea reported 390,000 new fever cases detected Sunday, as an additional eight deaths brought the toll of known deaths to 50, according to state media. Official KCNA said Monday that another emergency meeting of the Workers’ Party political bureau was held the previous day, where leader Kim Jong Un …
Read More »US Automakers Reinstate Mask Mandate at Some Michigan Facilities
General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler parent Stellantis said on Sunday they are reinstating a requirement that employees wear masks in southeastern Michigan where there are high levels of COVID-19. The Detroit Three automakers said in early March they would allow auto workers to stop wearing masks at …
Read More »COVID-Hit Shanghai Announces Gradual Reopening of Businesses
Shanghai announced a gradual reopening from Monday of businesses, although it remains unclear when the millions of people still locked down in China’s economic capital will finally be allowed out of their homes. Confronted with its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic, China — the last major …
Read More »North Korea Reports 42 Total Deaths in 4th Day of Lockdown
North Korea said on Sunday that a total of 42 people have died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown aimed at stopping the impoverished country’s first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak. North Korea’s admission on Thursday that it is battling an “explosive” COVID-19 outbreak has raised concerns …
Read More »South Africa Has New Surge of COVID From Omicron Sub-Variants
South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths, said professor Marta Nunes, a researcher …
Read More »New Zealand Prime Minister Tests Positive for COVID-19
New Zealand’s prime minister has tested positive for COVID. Jacinda Ardern’s office said in a statement Saturday that she has mild symptoms and has been in isolation since Sunday, when her partner, Clarke Gayford, tested positive. Ardern is required to be in isolation until May 21, preventing her from being …
Read More »‘Explosive’ Fever Produces 1st COVID-19 Death: North Korea State Media
North Korea reported its first COVID-19-linked deaths Friday, one day after it acknowledged a coronavirus outbreak within its borders. It also said hundreds of thousands of people had come down with a fever of unknown origin since late April. Pyongyang’s official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said one of six …
Read More »At Least 27 Die as ‘Explosive’ Fever Spreads in North Korea
North Korea reported 21 additional deaths Friday among people experiencing fevers, the official KCNA news agency said Saturday, amid the nation’s first outbreak of COVID-19. A Reuters report, quoting KCNA, said nearly 281,000 people had received treatment and 27 in all had died since the fever, the origin of which …
Read More »WHO Chief: ‘Misguided to Think This Pandemic Is Over’
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Thursday at the second U.S.-led virtual COVID summit, co-hosted by Belize, Germany, Indonesia and Senegal. “So although reported cases and deaths are now decreasing globally, it is misguided to think this pandemic is over. The …
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