{"id":52704,"date":"2022-09-06T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52704"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:01:30","slug":"yanggang-province-orders-citizens-flu-symptoms-self-isolate-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/yanggang-province-orders-citizens-flu-symptoms-self-isolate-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanggang Province orders citizens with flu symptoms to self-isolate for three days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea&#8217;s Yanggang Province recently ordered people with flu symptoms to self-isolate for three days, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This development comes after the authorities locked down a region in Yanggang Province following an outbreak of fever cases, only to lift the lockdown a day later when it turned out that they were just flu cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Friday that the emergency anti-epidemic command of Yanggang Province recently issued an order for patients with flu-like symptoms to self-isolate for three days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAccording to the order, if you catch a cold or have similar symptoms, you must isolate yourself at home for three days,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the provincial emergency anti-epidemic command recently issued an emergency lockdown for a particular region in Yanggang Province where cases of fever emerged because flu cases were mistakenly diagnosed as COVID-19. It then ordered a three-day isolation measure to stop the flu and block its spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to this, North Korea reported through the Rodong Sinmun that the authorities locked down a region in Yanggang Province on Aug. 25 after four cases of fever appeared, only to lift the order the next day after all four cases turned out to be the flu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the provincial emergency anti-epidemic command reportedly underscored that the infected must isolate themselves because the flu is an acute viral respiratory disease that spreads through the air from the coughs and sneezes of the infected, as well as through infected objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is to say, just a cough or a sneeze is good enough to get one three days of self-isolation at home as a \u201ccase of the flu.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, North Koreans are reportedly unhappy with the order, complaining that they are living day-to-day and that \u201cnobody will feed our families while we\u2019re in isolation for three days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People nonetheless feel a bit of relief since unlike cases of COVID-19, which triggers regional lockdowns, the flu requires only the patient themselves to self-isolate for three days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, even after North Korea declared an end to the nation\u2019s COVID-19 situation, neighborhood doctors in Hyesan, Yanggang Province have been going around their jurisdictions every morning to perform temperature checks on local residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doctors visit households everyday to check for cases of fever, but the source says they typically do not look at patients, and simply ask whether they have other symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has led some locals to sarcastically ask, \u201cDon\u2019t they have anything better to do in the morning?\u201d It has also sparked concern that suspected COVID-19 patients who suffer from high fever could easily hide their condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey won\u2019t get medicine even if they say they have COVID-19 symptoms, and they\u2019ll need to spend a long time in isolation,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;What\u2019s more, they\u2019re afraid it could trigger a regional lockdown, so many locals hide the condition of their illness.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that people keep mum even if suspected COVID-19 symptoms appear because their neighbors \u2014 who are already suffering a direct threat to their livelihoods \u2014 could suffer even worse hardships in the event of a full-scale lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220902-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea&#8217;s Yanggang Province recently ordered people with flu symptoms to self-isolate for three days, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 This development comes after the authorities locked down a region in Yanggang Province following an outbreak of fever cases, only to lift the lockdown a day later when it turned out that they were just flu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":43596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[271,763],"class_list":["post-52704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ryanggang-province","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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