North Korea Says It Has Quarantined 10,000 People But Nobody Has Tested Covid-19 Positive Yet

North Korea is one of the places that is yet to be affected by coronavirus. Let's rephrase that, rather it claims that no cases have been reported as yet. It is odd though that while countries around it are struggling to cope with the pandemic, nobody has tested positive for COVID-19 from the nation.

But having said that, North Korea did take some extreme measures well before the other countries. In late January, it sealed its borders with China and cut off all business and trade ties.

But after years of international sanctions, the health system is damaged and the sudden outbreak of coronavirus could be devastating.

¡°You can see immediately what¡¯s going to happen if you get a surge of COVID-19 patients streaming in,¡± said Dr. Kee B. Park, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, according to the New York Times.

¡°It will overwhelm the system very quickly,¡± he added.

¡±It¡¯s because they may have cases but they just don¡¯t know how to detect it,¡± he went on to say.

¡°So they can say, ¡®We have not confirmed it¡¯.¡±

¡°It¡¯s a blatant lie when they say they have no cases,¡± said Seo Jae-pyoung, secretary-general of the Seoul-based Association of North Korean Defectors.

¡°The last thing the North wants is a social chaos that may erupt when North Koreans realize that people are dying of an epidemic with no cure,¡± he added.

North Korea claims to have quarantined 10,000 people, but nobody has tested positive. But it all remains shrouded in mystery.

It could be they are not aware of it, of they are actually not suffering from the pandemic. But nothing can be said for sure.