Certainly, it's worrying if countries ... are not using the tools that are now available, said WHO High levels of transmission of the coronavirus among unvaccinated people, such as in North Korea, create a higher risk of new variants, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
This comes amidst North Korea's first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak. The situation is currently fuelling concerns over a major crisis due to a lack of vaccines and medical infrastructure. "Certainly it's worrying if countries ...
are not using the tools that are now available," said WHO emergencies director Mike Ryan in response to a question about the outbreak in North Korea. "WHO has repeatedly said that where you have unchecked transmission, there is always a higher risk of new variants emerging," he said.
6 died, 269,510 people found with fevers North Korea on Tuesday reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 and encouraged good health habits, as a mass outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population and military officers were deployed to distribute medicine.