North Korea quarantines about 380 foreigners to avert new virus spread

North Korea has quarantined around 380 foreigners across the country in an attempt to prevent an outbreak of a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus raging in neighbor China, state-run media said Monday.The report comes as North Korea has cut off traffic to and from China and Russia since earlier this year in the wake of the spread of the new virus, which causes the disease officially known as COVID-19 that has infected more than 70,000 people and killed 2,000 worldwide.The official media did not elaborate on the details of the foreigners, but foreign affairs experts speculated that they could …READ FULL ARTICLE