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‘North Korea’s Dr Fauci’: health official emerges as face of Covid-19 campaign | South China Morning Post

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Every day for the past week, a North Korean health official named Ryu Yong-chol has appeared on state television at 9:30am to report on the country’s Covid-19 outbreak. He has become the public face of the isolated country’s battle against the epidemic, similar to Dr Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the US Pr…

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