(ANSA) – BEIJING, MAY 21 – North Korea also has its ‘Anthony Fauci’, the super expert who reassures and dispenses advice in the face of the aggressiveness of Covid-19 including antibiotics, gargle with salt water and ginger tea : this is Ryu Yong Chol, a little-known official who has become the public face of the country’s battle at the outbreak of the new coronavirus, the first made official in over two years of pandemic.
Every morning, at 9.30, he appears on state television Kctv to give indications on how to deal with the crisis and to update from his desk the bulletin on the “cases of fever” that are affecting the country, which has risen to more than 2.2 million with over 60 deaths. KCNA reported that Ryu, flawless in his dark suit, tie and rimmed eyeglasses, works for the outbreak prevention headquarters, recently established to deal with Covid-19.
“We should step up efforts to control and isolate every single infected person without exception so as to completely eliminate all spaces where infectious disease can spread,” Ryu said today in his bulletin, urging “beware of dangerous loopholes.”
Very little is known about him, including his medical skills.
In a July 2017 state media report, a director general of the ministry of health of the same name accused South Korea of ”planning a biochemical terrorist attack” against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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