China offers to help North Korea with Covid-19

Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered to help North Korea in

tackling coronavirus, in a message to its leader Kim Jong-un.

President Xi told Kim China would provide support “based on North

Korea's needs”, a leading Communist Party newspaper reported.

The Global Times said Xi had thanked Kim “for his congratulations
on China's hard-won victory over the Covid-19 epidemic”.

Not much is known about the coronavirus situation in North Korea.

The country has repeatedly insisted it has no confirmed Covid-19

infections, crediting this supposed success to strict containment
measures and the closure of its borders.

South Korean intelligence officials have said it is implausible that

North Korea does not have any cases, given its links with
neighbouring China.

North Korea is seen as highly vulnerable to infectious diseases,

and its healthcare system ill equipped to deal with them.

Young men are more likely than young women to break lockdown
rules, psychologists have suggested, after questioning just under
2,000 young people aged between 13 and 24.

Half of the men aged 19-24 had met friends or family members
they did not live with during lockdown, compared to 25% of
women.

The researchers from the University of Sheffield and Ulster

University called on the government to better target messages for
young people.