The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has reported 15 new deaths, raising the total death toll of people who have come down with fever symptoms in the country to 42. State news agency KCNA said another over 296,000 people had fever symptoms. The country is in its fourth day of a nationwide lockdown. Authorities announced the country's first COVID-19 death earlier this week. DPRK leader Kim Jong Un chaired a meeting on the crisis, describing it as the "gravest state of emergency."