Experts are skeptical of the no-coronavirus claim from the tightly controlled country so desperate to maintain the status of its border with China.
South Korea has far outpaced other countries including the U.S. in coronavirus testing, a move that could mean early detection and lives saved.
But as much as North Korea’s authoritarian system is able to impose severe restrictions on its citizens’ movements, the virus is likely to make it into the country at some point if it hasn’t already, he said. In the absence of testing, patients would die from symptoms matching an infectious disease without doctors ever getting confirmation of what the person was sick with, according to Choi. Many patients simply turned to antibiotics across the board, creating drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis or typhus, he said.
A health worker takes the temperature of a woman amid concerns over the coronavirus at an entrance of the Pyongchon District People’s Hospital in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday.
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