North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and top officials said there are still “some deficiencies” in the country’s battle to fight off the global COVID-19 pandemic, state media reported on Wednesday, Sept. 30.

The comments came during a Politburo meeting held in Pyongyang the previous day, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

The report didn’t include details about the state of COVID-19 inside the country, but said that deficiencies were related to “preventing the inroads of the malignant virus.”

The report also urged citizens to “guard against self-complacency, carelessness, irresponsibility and slackness in the anti-epidemic field and