Kim Orders Lockdown After North Korea Reports First Covid Case
- Kim’s regime has long denied that it has had a Covid case
- Country has refused vaccines offered by international agency
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered all cities to be put under lockdown after the state for the first time Thursday said it has Covid-19 in its borders.
“A serious situation has been created due to the introduction of a stealth omicron mutant virus into our precincts,” its official Korean Central News Agency said. At a party meeting attended by Kim, authorities elevated the country’s national quarantine measures to “maximum emergency,” it added.