{"id":50033,"date":"2021-12-03T14:40:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=50033"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:33:30","slug":"with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea&#8217;s coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50035\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/\uc9d1\uccb4\uc801\ud611\uc758-\uc758\ub8cc\ubd09\uc0ac\uc9c8-\ud5a5\uc0c1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/\uc9d1\uccb4\uc801\ud611\uc758-\uc758\ub8cc\ubd09\uc0ac\uc9c8-\ud5a5\uc0c1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/\uc9d1\uccb4\uc801\ud611\uc758-\uc758\ub8cc\ubd09\uc0ac\uc9c8-\ud5a5\uc0c1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/\uc9d1\uccb4\uc801\ud611\uc758-\uc758\ub8cc\ubd09\uc0ac\uc9c8-\ud5a5\uc0c1-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/\uc9d1\uccb4\uc801\ud611\uc758-\uc758\ub8cc\ubd09\uc0ac\uc9c8-\ud5a5\uc0c1-696x452.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/\uc9d1\uccb4\uc801\ud611\uc758-\uc758\ub8cc\ubd09\uc0ac\uc9c8-\ud5a5\uc0c1-647x420.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean doctors in a photo published in the Rodong Shinmun on Nov. 30, 2021. \/ Image: Rodong Shinmun &#8211; News 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the world going on alert due to the recent spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, North Korean authorities are focusing all their energy on bolstering quarantine efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province on Thursday, the Central Emergency Anti-epidemic Headquarters issued an order to quarantine headquarters nationwide on Nov. 28 calling on them to strengthen quarantine efforts and take thorough measures to deal with the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In North Hamgyong Province, the authorities responded the same day with an emergency meeting of officials ranked section chief and above from provincial and city quarantine stations, provincial and city hospitals and local clinics. The meeting ordered doctors to take thorough measures and manage their domains to prevent fever patients from emerging within their jurisdictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, it stressed that doctors visit households in their jurisdiction twice a day from Nov. 29 \u2014 the very next day \u2014 to check for fever or other symptoms, immediately reporting their results to hospitals and quarantine stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said doctors were also threatened with punishment if fever patients emerge in their districts, or if they fail to quickly identify patients with suspicious symptoms and take appropriate measures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically, the source said they were threatened with transfers to rural hospitals or even being stripped of their credentials, depending on the severity of their mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has been using the \u201csection doctor system\u201d &#8211; where doctors are in charge of seeing patients in a particular area &#8211; to prevent the spread of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. However, there is reportedly considerable public discontent with the arrangement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The section doctor system began from the Seventh Meeting of the Second Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly in February of 1960. The meeting called for \u201ccomplete, general free medical treatment\u201d throughout the country. The authorities officially declared the launch of the new system during the Fourth Party Congress in September the following year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, the authorities planned even denser systems of healthcare, including a \u201cresidential system\u201d based on places of residence and a \u201cworkplace system\u201d based on factories and enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, free medical treatment has existed in name only since the 1990s, as has the section doctor system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While doctors have been visiting families in their jurisdictions in the morning and afternoon to check temperatures, they are reportedly showing little interest in treating sick patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said doctors are only taking daily temperatures, providing no medication for complaints. He ruefully added that doctors are showing exclusive interest in fevers as they face punishment for outbreaks in their areas of responsibility.<\/span><\/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\/%e5%8c%97-%ec%9d%98%ec%82%ac-%eb%8b%b4%eb%8b%b9%ea%b5%ac%ec%97%ad%ec%a0%9c-%eb%b6%80%ed%99%9c-%ec%a3%bc%eb%af%bc%eb%93%a4-%ec%b9%98%eb%a3%8c-%ec%95%84%eb%8b%8c-%ec%97%b4%eb%a7%8c-%ec%b2%b4\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the world going on alert due to the recent spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, North Korean authorities are focusing all their energy on bolstering quarantine efforts. According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province on Thursday, the Central Emergency Anti-epidemic Headquarters issued an order to quarantine headquarters nationwide on Nov. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":45920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50033","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>With Omicron spreading, N. Korea&#039;s coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea&#039;s coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With the world going on alert due to the recent spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, North Korean authorities are focusing all their energy on bolstering quarantine efforts. According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province on Thursday, the Central Emergency Anti-epidemic Headquarters issued an order to quarantine headquarters nationwide on Nov. [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-03T05:40:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-05T03:33:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"584\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lee Chae Eun\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lee Chae Eun\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lee Chae Eun\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6c9f40b0a89c4a5354607f43756dbbe0\"},\"headline\":\"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea&#8217;s coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-03T05:40:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-05T03:33:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":478,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/\",\"name\":\"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea's coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-03T05:40:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-05T03:33:30+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":584,\"caption\":\"Disease control officials in Pyongyang spraying buses with disinfectant. (Rodong Sinmun)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea&#8217;s coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/\",\"name\":\"North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Daily NK English\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/top_logo@1x.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/top_logo@1x.png\",\"width\":272,\"height\":90,\"caption\":\"Daily NK English\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"description\":\"An independent online news organization based in Seoul, South Korea, reporting on internal North Korean affairs through a network of in-country sources and defector journalists. Part of the Unification Media Group (UMG) consortium.\",\"email\":\"dailynkenglish@uni-media.net\",\"telephone\":\"82-2-732-6998\",\"legalName\":\"DailyNK\",\"foundingDate\":\"2004-12-01\",\"numberOfEmployees\":{\"@type\":\"QuantitativeValue\",\"minValue\":\"1\",\"maxValue\":\"10\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6c9f40b0a89c4a5354607f43756dbbe0\",\"name\":\"Lee Chae Eun\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/9f4cf0f24b376077a2fcdab2e85c3584-150x150.webp\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/9f4cf0f24b376077a2fcdab2e85c3584-150x150.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/9f4cf0f24b376077a2fcdab2e85c3584-150x150.webp\",\"caption\":\"Lee Chae Eun\"},\"description\":\"Lee Chae Eun covers trade and market trends, as well as the North Korean government's surveillance and control of its citizens. She also closely follows the situation of North Korean defectors living in China. Further details about her identity cannot be made public for security reasons. Questions about her articles can be directed to dailynkenglish(at)uni-media.net.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/author\\\/lee-chea-un\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea's coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea's coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts","og_description":"With the world going on alert due to the recent spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, North Korean authorities are focusing all their energy on bolstering quarantine efforts. According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province on Thursday, the Central Emergency Anti-epidemic Headquarters issued an order to quarantine headquarters nationwide on Nov. [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/","og_site_name":"North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026","article_published_time":"2021-12-03T05:40:52+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-04-05T03:33:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":584,"url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Lee Chae Eun","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lee Chae Eun","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/"},"author":{"name":"Lee Chae Eun","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/6c9f40b0a89c4a5354607f43756dbbe0"},"headline":"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea&#8217;s coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts","datePublished":"2021-12-03T05:40:52+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-05T03:33:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/"},"wordCount":478,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/","url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/","name":"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea's coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg","datePublished":"2021-12-03T05:40:52+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-05T03:33:30+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/\uc0ac\ubcf8-origin_\ubd81\ud55c\ucf54\ub85c\ub09819\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\ubc29\uc5ed\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc5d0\uc8fc\ub825\u2026\ubb3c\uc0d0\ud2c8\uc5c6\ub294\ubc29\uc5ed\uc9c4.jpg","width":800,"height":584,"caption":"Disease control officials in Pyongyang spraying buses with disinfectant. (Rodong Sinmun)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-omicron-spreading-n-koreas-coronavirus-response-headquarters-calls-for-strengthened-quarantine-efforts\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"With Omicron spreading, N. Korea&#8217;s coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/","name":"North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#organization","name":"Daily NK English","url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/top_logo@1x.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/top_logo@1x.png","width":272,"height":90,"caption":"Daily NK English"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"description":"An independent online news organization based in Seoul, South Korea, reporting on internal North Korean affairs through a network of in-country sources and defector journalists. Part of the Unification Media Group (UMG) consortium.","email":"dailynkenglish@uni-media.net","telephone":"82-2-732-6998","legalName":"DailyNK","foundingDate":"2004-12-01","numberOfEmployees":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","minValue":"1","maxValue":"10"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/6c9f40b0a89c4a5354607f43756dbbe0","name":"Lee Chae Eun","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/9f4cf0f24b376077a2fcdab2e85c3584-150x150.webp","url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/9f4cf0f24b376077a2fcdab2e85c3584-150x150.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/9f4cf0f24b376077a2fcdab2e85c3584-150x150.webp","caption":"Lee Chae Eun"},"description":"Lee Chae Eun covers trade and market trends, as well as the North Korean government's surveillance and control of its citizens. She also closely follows the situation of North Korean defectors living in China. Further details about her identity cannot be made public for security reasons. Questions about her articles can be directed to dailynkenglish(at)uni-media.net.","url":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/author\/lee-chea-un\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50038,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50033\/revisions\/50038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}