North Korea reports 18,000 Covid cases today. Yesterday the number was 1

Yesterday North Korea confirmed its very first Covid case and immediately went into lockdown but not soon enough. Today the country's Covid case number jumped to more than 18,000.

"This has the potential to be a public health catastrophe inside North Korea," Will Ripley said on CNN today (video below), describing North Korea as "one of only two countries in the world that has not administered vaccinations, the other being Eritrea." — Read the rest