North Korea said on Friday it had confirmed that cases of unknown fever reported near its border with China were patients with the flu, state media reported.
On Thursday the country said that it had locked down the area and mobilised medical teams after four fever cases were reported from Ryanggang Province, but that it was not COVID-19, over which the country declared victory this month.
"It was revealed that all of the fever patients in the Ryanggang Province were patients with the flu," KCNA news agency reported on Friday, saying experts conducted clinical symptoms observation, epidemiological relationship investigation and nucleic acid tests.
