ANKARA
North Korea has postponed an international film festival by a month amid the coronavirus outbreak.
According to NKNews, a dedicated news website which follows developments in the communist state, Pyongyang International Film Festival will now be held in October.
However, it remains unclear whether this was a precautionary measure against the deadly coronavirus, which originated in China last December.
The annual festival is held in September.
Pyongyang, from where news from independent sources is near-impossible to come out, has not reported any case of the virus, officially knows as COVID-19 which has claimed nearly 4,300 lives globally.
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