Covid-19: North Korea reports no ‘fever’ cases for first time since May

A teacher takes the temperature of a schoolgirl to help curb the spread of coronavirus at Kim Song Ju Primary School in Central District in Pyongyang (Cha Song Ho/AP)

North Korea has reported no new “fever” cases for the first time since it admitted to its first domestic Covid-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May.

There have been widespread doubts about the accuracy of North Korean statistics as its reported deaths are too low and its daily “fever” cases have been plummeting too fast recently.