{"id":53870,"date":"2023-01-27T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53870"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:09:18","slug":"yanggang-province-sees-spike-people-coronavirus-like-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/yanggang-province-sees-spike-people-coronavirus-like-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanggang Province sees a spike in people with coronavirus-like symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been a noticeable spike in cases of high fever, coughing and other COVID-like symptoms in Yanggang Province as of late, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Thursday that cases \u201cresembling COVID\u201d are skyrocketing in certain areas like the city of Hyesan since mid-January.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt seems cases are climbing with falling immunity due to hunger overlapping with the freezing cold,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, many Yanggang Province residents have recently been complaining of high fever, coughs, phlegm and severe joint pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, hospitals and other medical institutions uniformly diagnose such cases as the flu, simply telling patients to keep taking cold medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said patients are being forced to suffer, unable to even tell if they have the flu or COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, with more and more patients suffering similar symptoms, not only is getting one\u2019s hands on medicines in pharmacies and markets proving difficult, but the medicines are reportedly ineffective even if you find them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, a 40-year-old man in Hyesan\u2019s Hyetan-dong neighborhood \u2014 identified by his surname of Choe \u2014 purchased three days of aspirin to treat the high fever, cough and joint pain from which he had been suffering since Jan. 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, he is reportedly still suffering as the aspirin had little effect, even after consuming all of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even residents of downtown districts like Hyehung-dong and Hyesin-dong find cold medicine and fever remedies ineffective, leading some to complain that \u201conly fake drugs are in circulation\u201d and that \u201cbuying real drugs has become practically impossible, even if you have money.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A man in his 50s in Samsu County \u2014 identified by his surname of Pak \u2014 reportedly went to the county hospital with a high fever on Jan. 18, but was given neither a precise diagnosis nor medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hospital simply told him to take cold medicine and fever medicine three times a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pak reportedly complained that \u201ceveryone knows you need to take medicine. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I came to the hospital because I have no medicine at home or money to buy any, so what\u2019s the deal with doctors not giving patients medicine?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said local resentment is reaching a fever pitch as hospitals give out useless prescriptions and medicines prove difficult to purchase \u2014 and ineffective at that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People \u201cdon\u2019t think about going to the hospital even if they have a high fever because they\u2019ll receive no proper prescription even if they go there because they\u2019re sick,&#8221; he continued, adding,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNowadays, it\u2019s hard to receive treatment for an illness, even if you have money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230126-4\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a noticeable spike in cases of high fever, coughing and other COVID-like symptoms in Yanggang Province as of late, Daily NK has learned. A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Thursday that cases \u201cresembling COVID\u201d are skyrocketing in certain areas like the city of Hyesan since mid-January.\u00a0 \u201cIt seems cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":52106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[222,737,763],"class_list":["post-53870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-border","tag-public-health","tag-covid-19"],"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>Yanggang Province sees a spike in people with coronavirus-like symptoms - 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\/yanggang-province-sees-spike-people-coronavirus-like-symptoms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yanggang Province sees a spike in people with coronavirus-like symptoms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There has been a noticeable spike in cases of high fever, coughing and other COVID-like symptoms in Yanggang Province as of late, Daily NK has learned. 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