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North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic Covid-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May. There have been widespread outside doubts about the accuracy of North Korean statistics as its reported fatalities are too low and its daily fever cases have been plummeting too fast recently. Some experts say North Korea has likely manipulated the scale of illness and deaths to help leader Kim Jong-un maintain absolute control amid mounting economic difficulties. The North’s state emergency anti-epidemic centre said via...
