North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un has warned that there will be
‘serious consequences’ if the deadly coronavirus spreads to his country.
At a ruling party meeting, Kim called for the country’s anti-epidemic
headquarters to strengthen screening and tests and seal off all
‘channels and space through which the infectious disease may find its
way,’ Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said on Saturday.
‘In case the infectious disease spreading beyond control finds its
way into our country, it will entail serious consequences,’ the agency
quoted Kim as saying during the politburo meeting of the Workers’ Party.
It was also reported that he also called for the strict enforcement
of preventive measures against the ‘tricky’ virus that spreads rapidly
and emphasized that all fields and units of the country should
‘unconditionally’ obey quarantine instructions laid-out by the
anti-epidemic headquarters.
Kim’s comments on the virus comes a day after South Korea confirmed
571 new cases of Coronavirus on Friday to take their number to 2,337,
the highest in the world outside China, where the disease emerged from.