News Snapshot:
At 9.30am every day this week, a soft-spoken official has appeared on North Korean television to report the number of people with fever and new deaths, and to explain measures to stop North Korea’s first confirmed Covid-19 outbreak. The little-known official, Ryu Yong-chol, has become the public face of the isolated country’s battle against the epidemic, the equivalent of US Covid-19 tsar Dr Anthony Fauci or the director of South Korea’s disease prevention agency, Jeong Eun-kyeong. For more than two years, with its borders sealed, North Korea did not report a single case of Covid-19, which sceptics abroad suggested was...
