{"id":47264,"date":"2020-12-25T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47264"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:33:33","slug":"central-anti-epidemic-committee-inspects-quarantine-efforts-ahead-eighth-party-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/central-anti-epidemic-committee-inspects-quarantine-efforts-ahead-eighth-party-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Anti-epidemic Committee inspects quarantine efforts ahead of the Eighth Party Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea is ramping up COVID-19 disease control efforts ahead of the Eighth Party Congress <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that is scheduled to be held in January, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Central Anti-epidemic Committee\u2019s inspection began early this month,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday. \u201cMembers of the committee are being dispatched to each region to educate citizens on the specifics of the quarantine orders issued by the government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the Central Anti-epidemic Committee closely examined the state of the Sinuiju\u2019s disease control measures as well, according to another source in North Pyongan Province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee is conducting an intense inspection of COVID-19 prevention measures in the Sino-North Korean border region. The committee\u2019s focus on the border region may be due to the \u201cHyesan Incident,\u201d a smuggling incident that occurred in Hyesan, Yanggang Province, recently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee\u2019s inspectors are reportedly demanding detailed reports from border region residents on even the most trivial or unusual problems and ordering them to strictly adhere to quarantine and the social distancing rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45999\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/origin_\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ubc1c\uc5f4\uac80\uc0ac\ud558\ub294\ubd81\ud55c\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4.jpg\" alt=\"covid quarantine\" width=\"845\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/origin_\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ubc1c\uc5f4\uac80\uc0ac\ud558\ub294\ubd81\ud55c\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/origin_\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ubc1c\uc5f4\uac80\uc0ac\ud558\ub294\ubd81\ud55c\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/origin_\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ubc1c\uc5f4\uac80\uc0ac\ud558\ub294\ubd81\ud55c\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/origin_\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ubc1c\uc5f4\uac80\uc0ac\ud558\ub294\ubd81\ud55c\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4-696x409.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/origin_\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ubc1c\uc5f4\uac80\uc0ac\ud558\ub294\ubd81\ud55c\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4-716x420.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disease control officials testing drivers for COVID-19 symptoms in Pyongyang&#8217;s Manggyongdae District. \/ Image: Rodong Sinmun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local doctors have been ordered to check the temperature of households under their care twice a day, and people have recently been required to keep a two-meter distance from each other in the streets, according to sources in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The heads of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, North Korea\u2019s lowest administrative unit, are keeping close tabs on hygiene among the households they watch over. In practice, this means that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heads are checking that people are abiding by quarantine rules and sanitizing their houses and hands four times a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Locals have reportedly been ordered to make their antiseptic solution from the extract provided by their <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. One source said that the head of a local <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told residents under her charge to boil water with half a spoon of salt for two hours if they are running low on antiseptic solution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inspectors <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also urged households to add garlic concentrate to their side dishes every day or even to just \u201csniff it\u201d to prevent infection. They are spreading other unverified disease control information as well, including the claim that \u201ca nation that eats soybean bean paste and kimchi can get out from under this infectious disease.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As North Korean authorities are ramping up COVID-19 disease control efforts, some North Koreans are saying that \u201cit won\u2019t be long before trade is restarted.\u201d Their reasoning behind this is that \u201c[the North Korean authorities] are taking every precaution and readying themselves to be able to immediately handle any issues that arise because they are planning to reopen [the borders] after the Eighth Party Congress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*Translated by Susan Lee<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%eb%b6%81%ed%95%9c%e5%bc%8f-%ec%bd%94%eb%a1%9c%eb%82%98-%eb%b0%a9%ec%97%ad-%eb%a7%88%eb%8a%98%ec%a6%99%ec%9c%bc%eb%a1%9c-%ec%9d%8c%ec%8b%9d%ed%95%98%ea%b1%b0%eb%82%98-%eb%83%84%ec%83%88\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is ramping up COVID-19 disease control efforts ahead of the Eighth Party Congress that is scheduled to be held in January, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cThe Central Anti-epidemic Committee\u2019s inspection began early this month,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday. \u201cMembers of the committee are being dispatched to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":47265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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