North Korea airs documentary praising its ‘victory’ over pandemic [VIDEO]

On Monday evening, North Korean state television aired a documentary lauding the country’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19an “unprecedented event” that led the territory to the complete closure of its borders.

Documentary film broadcast on TV CCTV and focuses on the “great victory of lockdown” that the country enforced during the health crisis, it looks from the regime’s containment measures to the testimonies of survivors of the “fever” that swept across its territory in 2022.

North Korea On January 24, 2020, a strict closure of land, sea and air borders was introduced, leaving the country even more isolated than usual for more than two years.

As the documentary showed, among the measures that the Territory implemented as part of its “quarantine system” in the early moments of the pandemic were the mandatory wearing of a mask, the closure of schools and businesses such as sanatoriums, increased screening and quarantine of goods, and the disinfection of premises or vehicles.

Years without infections?

North Korea It went on, according to his calculations, for two years and three months without detecting the presence of a new coronavirus in the country, until in May 2022 the spread of the “fever” was announced since the end of the previous month, rapidly spreading throughout the country. nation.

The documentary shows how health protocols such as the use of a double mask when going out, frequent hand hygiene or the administration of penicillin to the sick, and the dispatch of military doctors to assist in treatment from patients were circulated in the state media.

The footage, which is about an hour long, includes testimonies from people who have recovered, including a woman who thought she would “pass out and die” after a temperature of 39.8, or images of Politburo meetings on crisis management or leader Kim Chen In visit to the National Emergency Prevention Agency.

Victory over the pandemic?

Kim declared Pyongyang’s victory over COVID-19 last August and ordered the lifting of preventive measures, announcing the end of the pandemic just three months after reporting his first case, a speed praised by state media.

North Korea has been highlighting its anti-viral measures, a topic that was also brought up at a major parliamentary meeting this month, where North Korean Prime Minister Kim Tok-hoon hailed the “great victory over the epidemic”, calling it “the biggest shock yet.” “country since its foundation. (EFE)