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Flags of China and China Resources logo flutter outside a China Resources building in Beijing, Thursday. Reuters-Yonhap China said Thursday it was ready to "fully support" North Korea in its pandemic prevention efforts after Pyongyang reported its first official COVID-19 case and declared a national emergency. North Korea, which imposed a rigid blockade of its borders at the start of the pandemic in 2020, had not previously reported any COVID-19 cases. But samples taken from patients with fevers in Pyongyang "coincided with Omicron BA.2 variant", the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Thursday, as leader Kim Jong Un and...
