Coronavirus patients in North Korea are starving to death and suffering in deplorable conditions in quarantine jails, it is claimed.
Most of those banished to the hermit state's nine quarantine facilities are ignored and held prisoner - they are not diagnosed, they do not receive treatment for Covid-19 and they are forced to sleep on the floor.
Some who arrived with only mild symptoms, such as a fever, ended up falling ill and dying of malnutrition, a new report alleges amid a sharp rise in the number of North Koreans being placed in quarantine.
if a patient dies, their body is cremated at the site and their remains are then sent to their family without any explanation.