People make their way in Kaesong, North Korea ON July 23, 2019 after the city was placed under total lockdown after a person there was found to have Covid-19 symptoms. Choe Ryong Hae, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, has visited the sealed city and nearby districts to check on the virus prevention measures, the official KCNA news agency said on July 30. - AP
SEOUL (Reuters): North Korea's nominal head of state inspected the locked down border town Kaesong after a defector suspected of having the coronavirus returned from South Korea, said state media, signalling serious concerns about cross-border contamination.
The isolated country has claimed it has no domestic virus cases and has imposed strict quarantine measures and screening in Kaesong, just north of the border with the South, where the suspected coronavirus infection was reported.
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