Seoul to Offer Vaccines to Help North Korea Tackle Covid Outbreak
SEOUL—South Korea said it would offer vaccines to help with a nationwide outbreak of Covid-19 in unvaccinated North Korea, the first major outreach to Pyongyang by President Yoon Suk-yeol since taking office this week.
North Korea reported its first confirmed death from Covid-19 on Friday, after saying that there had been no cases for more than two years. More than 350,000 people contracted a fever that state media said “explosively spread nationwide” from late April, and at least one of six people who died tested positive for the BA.2 Omicron variant of the virus.
