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Beijing: China said on Thursday it was ready to “fully support” North Korea in its epidemic containment efforts after Pyongyang reported its first official COVID case and declared a national emergency. North Korea, which imposed a drastic blockade of its borders at the start of the pandemic in 2020, had not previously reported any COVID cases. But samples taken from fever patients in Pyongyang “matched with the Omicron BA.2 version”, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday, as leader Kim Jong Un and top officials announced that They will implement “Maximum Emergency Epidemic Prevention System”. , China...
