Coronavirus fears in North Korea as thousands of volunteers deployed to prevent outbreaks

North Korea's Red Cross has deployed 43,000 volunteers to help communities prevent coronavirus outbreaks after fears the country had its first recorded case. It comes two weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed the city of Kaesong in lockdown over the suspected coronavirus infection. He declared an emergency after a man who defected to South Korea in 2017 returned to the city showing suspected COVID-19 symptoms.