{"id":54165,"date":"2023-03-02T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54165"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:10:34","slug":"some-n-koreans-appear-to-suffer-from-effects-of-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/some-n-koreans-appear-to-suffer-from-effects-of-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Some N. Koreans appear to suffer from effects of &#8220;long COVID&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some North Koreans who fell victim to COVID-19 appear to be dealing with symptoms of &#8220;long COVID,&#8221; such as lower cognitive function, breathing problems and other symptoms, a reporting partner in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe [phenomenon] is especially serious among people who simply endured while they were sick with COVID without taking fever medications,\u201d he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to South Korea\u2019s Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, there is no firm definition of \u201clong COVID,\u201d and different countries and agencies use their own definitions and terminology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In South Korea, health authorities define long COVID as the persistence of symptoms 12 weeks after a COVID-19 diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, no proof has yet emerged that the use or non-use of fever medication at the time of infection influences the manifestation of aftereffects. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Koreans, for their part, lack antibodies given that few have been vaccinated against the disease, which suggests they may be suffering serious aftereffects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner said people suffering aftereffects of the disease usually complain of headaches and tightness in the chest. \u201cSome people are even getting slow-witted,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generally speaking, long COVID\u2019s major symptoms include fatigue, post-exercise malaise, cognitive disability, coughs and respiratory distress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the reporting partner\u2019s account, some North Koreans seem to be suffering from symptoms typical of long COVID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting partner said several people, mostly old people and children, are suffering from symptoms of long COVID in his neighborhood watch unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s elderly and young children were already vulnerable to disease before the outbreak of COVID-19 due to malnutrition and the country&#8217;s non-functioning healthcare system. The threat to their health has only grown with COVID-19, for which they are at high risk due to the lack of vaccinations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s tough seeing old people sick, but it\u2019s painful to watch children with the world ahead of them appear to become slow-witted,\u201d the reporting partner said. \u201cBut what is especially painful is that nobody can do anything about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea officially acknowledged its first COVID-19 outbreak last May and declared the outbreak over three months later in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That being said, Rodong Sinmun and other state-run media outlets are still calling for a total focus on emergency disease control efforts, calling it the country\u2019s \u201cNo. 1 priority.\u201d Given the country\u2019s poor medical system, however, it is unlikely that North Koreans suffering symptoms of long COVID will be able to receive proper medical treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of reporting partners who live inside North Korea. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/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\/20230228-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some North Koreans who fell victim to COVID-19 appear to be dealing with symptoms of &#8220;long COVID,&#8221; such as lower cognitive function, breathing problems and other symptoms, a reporting partner in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cThe [phenomenon] is especially serious among people who simply endured while they were sick with COVID [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":52106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[737,763],"class_list":["post-54165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-public-health","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some N. 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