President of the United States Joe Biden said yesterday (21 May) that the US had offered Covid vaccines to North Korea following a growth of infections in the country, with about 2.5 million people being down with “fever”.
However, the US have gotten “no response” from Pyongyang.
Biden said that they have offered vaccines to North Korea and China, and that they are prepared to do so immediately, but have so far had no response from the latter two countries.
North Korea is in a state of “maximum emergency” as they reported their first cases of the Omicron variant, with their population of 25 million being largely unvaccinated.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol also expressed concern at North Korea’s Covid outbreak, and that they the ROK and US are willing to work with the international community to help the CPRK fight the virus.
North Korea has few intensive care units and their hospitals are reportedly poorly equipped, and they also have no drugs to treat the virus or the ability to perform mass testing.