RIGHT SPEAK: Kim Jong Un Claimed a ‘brilliant victory’ Over Covid – He Was Lying; Covid 2020: The Packed Covid Beach Described as 'Armageddon', and other C-Virus related stories

Kim Jong Un claimed a ‘brilliant victory’ over Covid – he was lying:

North Korea lied about the scale of its Covid-19 outbreak and left its citizens to “fend for themselves” without access to medicine or vaccines, a new report has claimed.

Pyongyang announced its first official Covid-19 case in May 2022 – more than two years after the virus began spreading globally – and Kim Jong Un declared a “brilliant victory” three months later, claiming to have stamped out the virus with only 74 total deaths.

However, interviews with 100 people inside the isolated country – conducted by the US-based think tanks the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and the George W. Bush Institute – suggested that the virus had been “rampant” in North Korea since 2020.

Of those interviewed, at least 92 said they had either been infected or knew someone who had been, mostly between May 2020-March 2022, which “suggests that the virus may have been widespread in the country long before the government’s first publicly reported case,” the report’s authors write.

The regime shut down its international borders and restricted internal travel from January 2020 until August 2023, pausing all trade, diplomacy, and the acceptance of humanitarian aid.

Government support ‘virtually non-existent’ --->READ MORE HERE

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Covid 2020: The packed Covid beach described as 'Armageddon':

In June 2020, a popular British seaside town was swamped with beachgoers amid a global pandemic. One photographer captured the chaos.

In June 2020, the UK began to swelter amid a summer heatwave.

Normally, Britons would flock to the country's iconic beach resorts, sunning themselves on pebbly beaches, feeding coins into garish arcade machines on "pleasure piers", and protecting their rapidly melting ice creams from the ever-present attention of marauding seagulls.

But this year was different.

Since March, the UK had been in lockdown. Pubs, clubs and theatres had shut their doors. The UK's high streets shops were largely closed except for supermarkets and food stores and a handful of other traders deemed essential. Sporting events, from horse racing to the country's world-famous Premier League football, had been cancelled. Despite stringent lockdowns, the death toll had climbed day after day; by early June, some calculated that 50,000 people had died from the disease in the UK since the outbreak started.

In the middle of June, however, the British government made tentative steps to try and re-open some elements of society. They allowed many shops to re-open (though pubs and restaurants were still shut) and made plans to relax the 2m (6.6ft) social distancing down to 1m (3.3ft).

As the mercury climbed, the Covid restrictions seemed to ease, at least a little.

On 25 June, 2020, the UK recorded its highest temperatures of the year so far; as high as 33.3C (92F). In the county of Dorset, the hot, sunny weather resulted in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, which oversees three of the most popular seaside resorts, declaring a major incident. Britons appeared to have decided, en masse, to have all had the same idea: try and cool off at the beach. --->READ MORE HERE