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By Soo-Hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is on track to “finally defuse” a crisis caused by the first recognized outbreak of COVID-19, the state news agency said Monday, as Asian neighbors battle a new wave of infections sparked by Omicron subvariants. The North says 99.98% of its 4.77 million fever patients have made a full recovery since late April, but due to an apparent lack of testing, it has not released numbers of those who have tested positive. “The anti-epidemic campaign has improved to finally fully defuse the crisis,” KCNA said. It added that the North had reported...
