Kim Jong-un rejects Covax vaccine offer as North Korea fights pandemic in ‘our style’
by Associated Press in Seoul from on (#5P3VS)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to wage a tougher epidemic prevention campaign in our style" after he turned down some foreign Covid-19 vaccines offered via the UN-backed immunisation program.
During a Politburo meeting on Thursday, Kim said officials must bear in mind that tightening epidemic prevention is the task of paramount importance which must not be loosened even a moment", the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday.
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