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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided an emergency politburo meeting and ordered the military be used to stabilize the supply of medicines in Pyongyang as the country battles its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, state media reported on Monday.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at a politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party to inspect the country’s antivirus efforts against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 14, 2022. KCNA via REUTERS <\/figcaption>

North Korea acknowledged for the first time last week that it is battling an \u201cexplosive\u201d COVID-19 outbreak, with experts raising concerns that the virus could devastate a country with limited medical supplies and no vaccine programme.<\/p>\n

At the emergency politburo meeting, held on Sunday, Kim criticized the \u201cirresponsible\u201d work attitude and organizing and executing ability of the Cabinet and the public health sector, state news agency KCNA reported.<\/p>\n

The government had ordered the distribution of its national medicine reserves but Kim said the drugs procured by the state are not reaching people in a timely and accurate manner through pharmacies, the report said.<\/p>\n

Kim ordered that the \u201cpowerful forces\u201d of the army\u2019s medical corps be deployed to \u201cimmediately stabilize the supply of medicines in Pyongyang City.\u201d<\/p>\n

KCNA also reported that Kim visited pharmacies located near the Taedong River in Pyongyang to find out about the supply and sales of drugs.<\/p>\n

Kim said pharmacies are not well-equipped to perform their functions smoothly, there are no adequate drug storage areas other than the showcases, and the salespeople were not equipped with proper sanitary clothing.<\/p>\n

North Korea has said that a \u201clarge proportion\u201d of the deaths so far have been due to people \u201ccareless in taking drugs due to the lack of knowledge and understanding of stealth Omicron variant virus infection disease and its correct treatment method.\u201d<\/p>\n

The country reported 392,920 more people with fever symptoms, with eight new deaths, KCNA said.<\/p>\n

It did not report how many of those suspected cases had tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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