GENEVA (Reuters) – A World Health Organization official said on Thursday the U.N. global health agency had yet to receive any formal notification of North Korea’s first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak.
“WHO is yet to receive an official report from the Ministry of Health, DPR Korea, about the confirmed COVID-19 case being reported in the media,” the WHO’s country representative Edwin Salvador said in an email to Reuters.
“WHO is in touch with the national IHR (International Health Regulations) focal person and other Ministry of Health officials.”
(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Jon Boyle)
