North Korea has a lack of medical supplies and poor health infrastructure
’ found the country’s healthcare system suffered from severe shortages of medicine and supplies. The problem was even worse in rural areas.US state department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said: ‘We strongly support and encourage the work of US and international aid and health organisations to counter and contain the spread of coronavirus in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.’
There are still no official cases in North Korea but reports from the South suggest as many as five may have dies Dozens of South Korean officials have been withdrawn from an inter-Korean liaison office after the North insisted the building close until the epidemic was brought under control.
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