The WHO this week implored North Korea to use all available tools to fight its growing COVID outbreak as Pyongyang continues to reject outside help.
Maria Van Kerkhove, an infectious disease expert with the WHO's emergencies program, told a press briefing from Geneva on Tuesday that governments needed a"comprehensive approach" to managing COVID using all available tools.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a pharmacy in Pyongyang on May 15, 2022. Kim was critical of North Korea’s government officials for failing to secure adequate supply of medications to the public amid the ongoing COVID outbreak, the country’s official Korean Central News Agency said May 16.
-backed COVAX sharing plan, according to reports out of Seoul. Two months later, still insisting it had no infections, Pyongyang then turned down millions of Chinese-made vaccines, UNICEF said.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN health agency was"deeply concerned" about the risk of further spread in North Korea,"particularly because the population is unvaccinated and many have underlying conditions, putting them at risk of severe disease and death.
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