Earlier this month, the WHO confirmed it had been receiving 'weekly updates' from North Korea's health ministry.
"[Officials] held a lecture session for all the residents titled 'Let's all work together on the coronavirus quarantine project to [successfully] implement the Supreme Leader's policies," the resident told RFA on Thursday.
But the resident was skeptical, noting:"North Hamgyong and South Hwanghae are located at the top and bottom of the map of our country, and Pyongyang is in the middle. Can you believe that there are confirmed cases in only these three areas?" The lecture was also held in Pyongyang where the same claims about the outbreak were made, another source told RFA on Wednesday.
Concerns over the accuracy of the reclusive state's official claim that it has no confirmed cases have been ongoing, especially given its neighboring countries, China and South Korea, both saw an explosion of cases in the early stages of the outbreak., which approved humanitarian exemptions to the sanctions placed on North Korea to help prevent the spread of the virus in the country.
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