Covid-19 gripping North Korea? 6 dead of 'fever'

North Korea on Friday reported the death of six people and the cause was said to be ‘fever’. Out of six one had tested positive for Covid-19, said the official Korean Central News Agency.

"A fever whose cause couldn't be identified explosively spread nationwide from late April... Six persons died (one of them tested positive for the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron,)" reported the official Korean Central News Agency. 

It is reported that around 187,800 people are currently being treated in isolation after they developed a fever. But, so far, the cause has not been identified.

More than 350,000 people had developed that fever and 18,000 reported such symptoms on Tuesday alone, KCNA said.

So far, the country has treated about 162,200 but didn’t specify how many had tested positive for Covid-19.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the anti-virus command center on Tuesday to review the situation and responses after declaring the "gravest state emergency". He also ordered to impose national lockdown.

KCNA reported that Kim Jong Un "criticized that the simultaneous spread of fever with the capital area as a center shows that there is a vulnerable point in the epidemic prevention system we have already established."