North Korea’s Kim Jong Un declares victory against Covid

The North has said it was running intensive medical checks nationwide, with daily PCR tests on water collected in borderline areas among the measures.It also said it has been developing new methods to better detect the virus and its variants, as well as other infectious diseases, such as monkeypox.Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, said the North Korean leader himself had suffered from fever symptoms, and blamed leaflets from South Korea for causing the outbreak, KCNA reported.”Even though he was seriously ill with a high fever, he could not lie down for a moment thinking about the people he had to take care of until the end in the face of the anti-epidemic war,” she said in a speech praising his efforts.