{"id":454873,"date":"2022-05-29T12:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T09:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/n-korea-moves-to-soften-curbs-amid-doubts-over-covid-counts\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T09:34:26","slug":"n-korea-moves-to-soften-curbs-amid-doubts-over-covid-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/n-korea-moves-to-soften-curbs-amid-doubts-over-covid-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"#N. 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Korea moves to soften curbs amid doubts over COVID counts&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CN_Korea_moves_to_soften_curbs_amid_doubts_over_COVID_counts%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;N. Korea moves to soften curbs amid doubts over COVID counts&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/n-korea-moves-to-softe-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/n-korea-moves-to-softe-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ruling party's politburo meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Credit: Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via AP\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/n-korea-moves-to-softe-1.jpg\" alt=\"N. Korea moves to soften curbs amid doubts over COVID counts\" title=\"In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ruling party's politburo meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Credit: Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via AP\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ruling party&#8217;s politburo meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Credit: Korean Central <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> Agency\/Korea News Service via AP<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country&#8217;s first COVID-19 outbreak is slowing.\n                                                <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                The discussion at the North&#8217;s Politburo meeting suggests it will soon relax a set of draconian curbs imposed after its admission of the omicron outbreak this month out of concern about its food and economic situations.<\/p>\n<p>Kim and other Politburo members &#8220;made a positive evaluation of the pandemic situation being controlled and improved across the country,&#8221; the official Korean Central News Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>They also &#8220;examined the issue of effectively and quickly coordinating and enforcing the anti-epidemic regulations and guidelines given the current stable anti-epidemic situation,&#8221; KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, North Korea reported 89,500 more patients with fever symptoms, taking the country&#8217;s total to 3.4 million. It didn&#8217;t say whether there were additional deaths. The country&#8217;s latest death toll reported Friday was 69, setting its mortality rate at 0.002%, an extremely low count that no other country, including advanced economies, has reported in the fight against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Many outside experts say North Korea is clearly understating its fatality rate to prevent any political damage to Kim at home. They say North Korea should have suffered many more deaths because its 26 million people are largely unvaccinated against COVID-19 and it lacks the capacity to treat patients with critical conditions. Others suspect North Korea might have exaggerated its earlier fever cases to try to strengthen its internal control of its population.<\/p>\n<p>Since its May 12 admission of the omicron outbreak, North Korea has only been announcing the number of patients with feverish symptoms daily, but not those with COVID-19, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently because of a shortage of test kits to confirm coronavirus cases in large numbers.<\/p>\n<p>But many outside health experts view most of the reported fever cases as COVID-19, saying North Korean authorities would know how to distinguish the symptoms from fevers caused by other prevalent infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak has forced North Korea to impose a nationwide lockdown, isolate all work and residential units from one another and ban region-to-region movements. The country still allows key agricultural, construction and other industrial activities, but the toughened restrictions have triggered worries about its food insecurity and a fragile economy already hit hard by border shutdowns because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers say North Korea will likely soon declare victory over COVID-19 and credit it to Kim&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Un-chul, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea, said the North&#8217;s recently elevated restrictions must be dealing a serious blow to its coal, agricultural and other labor-intensive industrial sectors. But he said those difficulties won&#8217;t likely rise to a level that threatens Kim&#8217;s grip on power, as the COVID-19 outbreak and strengthened curbs have given him a chance to boost his control over the population.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                                                                        Widespread disbelief over N. Korea&#8217;s tiny COVID death rate\n                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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