North Korea reports first COVID death after country implements lockdown
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More than 187,000 people are currently quarantined, and North Korean state media said one of the six people who died was infected by the omicron variant.
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, top, visits state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters in North Korea Thursday, May 12, 2022. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) An employee of the Kyonghung Foodstuff General Store disinfects the showroom countertops in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Cha Song Ho, File) South Korean army K-9 self-propelled howitzers take positions in Paju, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Friday, May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) An employee of the Kyonghung Foodstuff General Store disinfects the showroom in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)
On Thursday alone, 18,000 people were newly found with fever symptoms.