N.Korea reports first COVID-19 death after 350,000 sickened with fever


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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chairs a Worker's Party meeting on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak response in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 12, 2022 © Reuters May 13, 2022 07:40 JST | North Korea Copy Copied SEOUL (Reuters) -- At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of country's first confirmed outbreak since the pandemic began. Some 187,800 people are currently being treated in isolation...