Nearly two and a half years since the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, North Korea on Thursday reported its first case of the virus.
新冠肺炎病毒在全球流行2年半后，朝鲜于本周四首次报告了新冠病毒确诊病例+GefFNLhw%1.%_ke6,OD。
Calling the situation a "major national emergency,"
朝鲜官方通讯社朝中社称，状况已达到“重大国家紧急事件”，
the North's state-run news agency KCNA said there was a "hole" in its emergency quarantine procedures, that had kept the regime safe until that point.
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It said that the DNA samples collected by authorities from patients with fevers in Pyeongyang were identical to Omicron.
该通讯社称，有关部门从平壤的发热患者身上采集的DNA样本，与奥密克戎病毒高度一致Aat*=t&~l8=。
The KCNA said its leader Kim Jong-un chaired a Workers' Party meeting on Thursday to discuss the regime's response to the first outbreak of the virus.
朝中社表示，朝鲜领导人金正恩于周四主持了一次劳动党会议，讨论了该国针对第一起疫情的应对措施7J^FF+ggbr=LB。

Video footage from the North's state-run Korean Central Television showed Kim walking into the meeting room while wearing a mask for the first time.
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Kim ordered all cities to undergo "strict" lockdowns and said emergency reserve medical supplies would be mobilized.
金正恩要求朝鲜所有城市进行“严格”封锁，并表示将动员紧急储备的医疗物资~*vmsoDJz%E2l0;s。
To prevent COVID-19 from entering, North Korea had closed its borders to nearly all trade and visitors for more than two years.
为了防止新冠肺炎病毒的传入，朝鲜已经对几乎所有贸易和游客关闭了边境两年多的时间CLF9elUb)3tJq+qd。
Up until now, the North had never confirmed a single COVID-19 infection,
在此次疫情出现之前，朝鲜还没有确诊一例新冠病毒感染者，
and had declined offers of shipments of vaccines from the COVAX global COVID-19 vaccine-sharing program.
并拒绝了新冠肺炎疫苗实施计划所提供的疫苗MGO664[K6bU4E。