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North Korea warns people to brace for virus struggle
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Last Updated: May 04, 2021, 08:31 AM IST
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The North has claimed a perfect record in keeping out COVID-19, but outside experts have doubted the claim, given its poor health infrastructure and a porous border it shares with China, its economic lifeline.
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The column published on Pyongyang s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper came amid questions on when and how vaccines would arrive in North Korea.
Isolated North Korea is warning its people to brace for a prolonged struggle against the coronavirus, claiming that broadening outbreaks and muddled immunisation programmes in other countries show vaccines aren t the ultimate solution. The column published on Pyongyang s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper came amid questions on when and how vaccines would arrive in North Korea.
The Latest: Kuwait to bar unvaccinated from travelling abroad
by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 4, 2021 at 4:15 am EDT
Relatives of a person who died of COVID-19 mourn outside a field hospital in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Kuwait’s government is barring unvaccinated residents from travelling abroad starting later this month, the latest attempt to tame the spiraling coronavirus outbreak in the Gulf Arab sheikhdom.
The Cabinet decision, to take effect May 22, sparked instant anger and confusion, coming just after health authorities announced that global vaccine supply shortages would force them to delay distribution of second vaccine doses. Those who received the first Pfizer-BioNtech dose must wait six weeks for their second, and Oxford-AstraZeneca recipients must wait 3-4 months.