According to the report, North Korea strangely told people in the country that Covid patients touched on “alien things coming through the wind” while trying to blame the South for the virus. North Korea reported 4,570 more people with fever symptoms on Friday, with the total number of fever patients recorded at 4.74 million since the end of April.
Citizens were urged to be vigilant around objects that may have been blowing across the border of the South.
For years, activists in the South flew balloons across the border to send pamphlets and humanitarian aid.
In response, Seoul says there is ‘no possibility’ that Covid could have crossed the border that way.
According to North Korea’s state media, an official investigation found two people who became infected with Covid early in the outbreak after coming into contact with unidentified material near the South Korean border.
An 18-year-old soldier and a 5-year-old child tested positive for the virus in early April after finding the objects on a hill in Ipho-ri, it reported.
Since then, state media have said: “The malignant COVID-19 virus … has spread rapidly in the DVK [North Korea]. ”
As a result of the investigation, people in the country are instructed to “handle vigilantly with alien goods that come through wind and other climatic phenomena and balloons in the areas along the demarcation line and borders”.
Anyone who notices a foreign object is instructed to report it immediately so that it can be removed quickly by an emergency anti-epidemic team.
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Its 25 million population is vulnerable due to the lack of a vaccination program and poor healthcare system, although there have been media reports in recent weeks that Pyongyang has accepted an offer of Chinese-made vaccines.
It is not clear how many North Koreans, if any, have been vaccinated so far.