North Korea has finally been hit by Covid, and it’s not prepared
The country is believed to be completely unvaccinated, and many of its hospitals lack basic medicines, let alone ventilators.
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Katie Stallard is senior editor, China and global affairs, of the New Statesman. She is the author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea, and a non-resident global fellow at the Wilson Centre in Washington, DC.
The country is believed to be completely unvaccinated, and many of its hospitals lack basic medicines, let alone ventilators.
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