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[Foreign Affairs · Politics] [김병연 회원/Kim Byung-yeon] Nuclear weapons vs. Covid (Korea Joongang Daily 2022.05.25)

Date: 2022-05-25

Korea Joongang Daily | Kim Byung-yeon Professor, Department of Economics, Seoul National University

 2022.05.25

 

As of Tuesday, the number of suspected of Covid-19 cases in North Korea reached 3 million. According to Worldometer, it is the 38th highest number in the world. However, the number of deaths is very low at 68, ranking 195th in the world. It is only 1 percent of Denmark’s deaths, which had similar number of confirmed cases.
 
The trend of suspected cases is clearly different from patterns in other countries. The “doubling” of confirmed cases over a certain period of time is not detected, with the cases surging from 10,000 to 390,000 in three days. Also, the number of daily cases dropped to less than half from the peak only in a week. In short, it is exceptional. It may be due to technical challenges, such as a lack of diagnostic equipment, but it is also possible that the statistics are intentionally distorted.

 

 

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Source: https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2022/05/25/opinion/columns/Nuclear-weapons-vs-Covid/20220525205626608.html

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