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Korea&#8217;s Kilju County faces possible outbreak of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Officials in North Hamgyong Province\u2019s Kilju County have recently set up a quarantine facility to house a large number of people who are suffering from symptoms similar to those caused by COVID-19, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere have been more than 40 people who are suspected of having come down with the infectious disease in Kilju County and Kilju-eup [village] along with the Ilsin Coal Mining Village,\u201d a North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on May 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe county has set aside a building to be used as a quarantine facility for the sick people,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Hamgyong Province authorities have ordinarily ordered people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms to be transported to the province\u2019s capital, Chongjin, for treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This time, however, Kilju County authorities were ordered to deal with the patients locally because transport to the provincial capital was unavailable for unspecified reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kilju County officials have reportedly turned a newly-built structure at the Kilju Preservatives Factory into an isolation facility for the sick people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The central and provincial governments have reportedly sent disease control officials and doctors to the quarantine facility and Kilju County police officials are ensuring ordinary citizens keep away from it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLocal police are guarding the road that leads to the isolation facility,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of those who have come down sick are factory workers and their families and this has led to rumors that people in the area have come down with an \u201cunknown disease.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe authorities called a meeting with local residents, workers at the preservatives factory and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leaders to quiet these rumors about an unknown disease, and forbade the people from talking about the sick people,\u201d the source told Daily NK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea continues to claim that it has no COVID-19 infections yet reports from Daily NK and other sources suggest outbreaks have occurred.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 6, South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Service (NIS) stated during a closed-door meeting with members of South Korea\u2019s National Assembly intelligence committee that the intelligence agency \u201ccannot exclude\u201d the possibility that North Korea has COVID-19 cases, citing the extensive trade over the Sino-North Korean border before North Korea shut down its border in late January.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 10, Rodong Sinmun ran an article that declared that the country\u2019s communist party \u201cconsiders the health and lives of the people the nation\u2019s top priority\u201d and is the reason the leadership has taken \u201cpreemptive\u201d and \u201cdecisive\u201d measures to prevent the spread of the disease in the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em><a 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