North Korea is rapidly building a new hospital amid reports of a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the country. Workers have already laid 90% of the concrete at Pyongyang General Hospital, according to state propaganda.
Construction began suddenly at the height of the pandemic in March, though Kim Jong-un’s regime still denied it has ever had a case of Covid-19.
But now those claims have been debunked, after a wave of coronavirus deaths reportedly struck two hospitals in Pyongsong, roughly 18 miles north of the capital.The facilities have recently faced dozens of deaths among patients with COVID-19 symptoms, according to South Korea’s Daily NK newspaper.The affected hospitals specialise in treating tuberculosis and hepatitis respectively, and.