Primary school students have their temperatures checked before entering school in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo: AP-Yonhap News)
North Korea has conducted coronavirus tests on more than 9,000 people in the country, but has reported not one outbreak.
According to a weekly situation report released Friday by the World Health Organization, the North tested 9,373 people and claimed no cases as of December 3.
The agency said nearly half of those tested had influenza like illness and severe acute respiratory infections or were people who developed fever during their quarantine period.
The remaining were health workers involved in sample collection, testing and other quarantine efforts.
Since the North closed its borders with China earlier this year to keep the coronavirus out, it has quarantined and released more than 33,000 people.
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