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Bryan Betts
Bryan Betts is the Managing Editor of NK News. He has covered the Koreas for Yonhap News Agency, The Diplomat and Korea Exposé and previously worked as a newspaper reporter in South Carolina and New Mexico.
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COVID-19 North Korea reports no COVID cases as total tested nears 40,000Release of latest data follows mask-free military parade, amid apparent confidence in pandemic measures North Korea tested 1,368 additional people for COVID-19 and found no positive cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported, after the regime held a nighttime military parade on Sept. 9 that highlighted the country’s pandemic response. In two weekly situation reports published Friday, the WHO said the DPRK administered the tests from Aug. 27 to Sept. 9, bringing the total number of people tested in the country to 39,342 and the total samples collected to 78,410. Those tested in the latest rounds included 224 people with flu-like illness or respiratory infections and 1,144 health care workers. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |