{"id":51900,"date":"2022-06-08T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=51900"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:33:00","slug":"many-n-koreans-skeptical-about-their-own-governments-covid-19-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/many-n-koreans-skeptical-about-their-own-governments-covid-19-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Many N. Koreans skeptical about their own government&#8217;s COVID-19 statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea is claiming that the country\u2019s COVID-19 situation is improving, with the number of new fever cases decreasing. Yet several Daily NK sources say North Koreans themselves are skeptical of coronavirus-related data released by their own government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to statistics released through North Korean media recently, the number of new fever cases in the country has hovered at around 100,000 since May 21. North Korea announced a downward trend just six days after making its first official admission of an outbreak on May 12, indicating confidence that it can control and manage the situation on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, a source in Gangwon Province told Daily NK on Friday that as long as the country\u2019s Emergency Anti-epidemic Command fails to ascertain directly how lower-level officials are reporting fever cases, \u201cthe reality is that the statistics simply reflect what lower-level officials report, meaning that the central government can\u2019t know everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source went on to say that, \u201cPeople don\u2019t believe official statistics are accurate because lower-level officials are just counting who has fevers or not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Daily NK source in Nampo said people doubt the credibility of the statistics announced by the authorities. They say the numbers on fully recovered people are questionable because \u201cpeople receive no drugs or treatment when they are quarantined with fevers.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As these reports suggest, many North Koreans do not appear to believe the government\u2019s reports that the COVID-19 numbers are trending downward. North Korea&#8217;s entire population remains unvaccinated, which has prevented the country from achieving herd immunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, North Korea is stressing the role of the country\u2019s \u201chousehold doctor system.\u201d The system charges a single doctor at a neighborhood clinic with taking care of families in several <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(people\u2019s units).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodong Sinmun reported in a May 19 article that \u201ca large number of doctors in charge of households and medical workers of national, provincial, city and county-level hospitals are carrying out medical check-ups for the residents under their care in a responsible manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey keep close watch on those with fever and use scientific treatment methods,\u201d it added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Daily NK&#8217;s source in Nampo said that despite the household doctor system being in place, \u201cthere are many times when the five people who go around and check on quarantined families doesn&#8217;t even include a single doctor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s tough for one doctor to go around and take care of 40 to 50 households on his or her own,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cAnd, in fact, since the key [measures taken by the authorities to combat] COVID-19 include lockdowns, quarantines and bans on movement, non-professionals could be the ones going around taking people\u2019s temperatures. The household doctor system isn\u2019t helping the situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK&#8217;s source in Gangwon Province said the doctors who conduct checkups at people&#8217;s homes have no medications in their medicine bags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll they have are thermometers and propaganda material about public health,\u201d he said. \u201cThey just take your temperature, which anyone can do. Will you get accurate treatments or statistics from that?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, people classified as \u201cfully recovered\u201d upon being released from quarantine are complaining about various ailments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey didn\u2019t take any medicine, and they\u2019re called \u2018fully recovered\u2019 simply because they&#8217;ve completed their quarantine periods. [Even after leaving quarantine], some people have headaches or suffer non-stop coughing,\u201d the Gangwon Province-based source said. \u201cThey\u2019re all afraid that they\u2019ll be put again into quarantine, like a rat in a hole, if they get worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220603-2\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is claiming that the country\u2019s COVID-19 situation is improving, with the number of new fever cases decreasing. Yet several Daily NK sources say North Koreans themselves are skeptical of coronavirus-related data released by their own government.\u00a0 According to statistics released through North Korean media recently, the number of new fever cases in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":51723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[763,860,1199],"class_list":["post-51900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-quarantine","tag-nampo"],"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>Many N. 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