The authoritarian state of North Korea has placed its residents under a five-day lockdown over "respiratory illness".
Movement in the capital of Pyongyang has been restricted from Wednesday to Sunday as its residents have also been ordered to check their temperature daily, according to a government notice seen by the news outlet NK News.
Just a day earlier, the same publication had reported that its residents had been panic-buying groceries as they feared a lockdown would be imminent.
