Recently in Ryanggang province, a lockdown order was issued due to a fever outbreak, but the lockdown was lifted within a day after it was discovered that it was a flu.
A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on the 2nd: “Recently, the Ryanggang Province Emergency Prevention Command issued a three-day quarantine order if a patient develops cold symptoms.” They should be quarantined for a day, “he said.
According to the source, the provincial emergency quarantine command said the reason for the recent emergency lockdown in the area with fever in Ryanggang province was because it was misdiagnosed as Corona without diagnosing the flu in a timely manner. Few were told that he had been quarantined for a day.
Previously, through the Rodong Sinmun, North Korea reported that four people had fever in Ryanggang province on the 25th of last month and closed the area, but the next day, 26th, it was reported that all of them they had a fever. he had a cold and the block was lifted.
Specifically, the provincial emergency quarantine command department issued this guideline, stating, “The cold is an acute disease that is transmitted by infection with a virus (virus). It has to be done,” he said.
In other words, only coughing and sneezing should be considered colds and should be quarantined.
However, in response to these guidelines, residents say, “It’s hard to fix the food problem for a day even if you don’t go to the market for a day. If you’re quarantined for three days, who will provide food for your family?”
However, unlike the corona virus, where the entire area is blocked off, residents breathe a sigh of relief as only the person has to quarantine for three days.
Meanwhile, even after North Korea declared an end to the coronavirus crisis, it was reported that in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, doctors in charge of hospitals go to the designated area every morning to check the temperature of residents. .
Doctors visit families daily to check if any residents are showing symptoms of fever, but they often turn around without looking at their condition and asking if they have any other symptoms, the source said.
For this reason, some sarcastic comments come from the residents, such as “Is there anything to do in the morning?” On the other hand, there are rumors that point out that high fever patients suspected of Corona are an easy condition to hide their condition.
In this regard, the source states: “Even if we talk about the symptoms of Corona, the medicine does not solve it, you have to go out for a long time, you have to live in isolation, and furthermore, for fear that local blocking measures may be imposed, they are hiding their sickness. “There are a lot of residents,” he said.
Residents who are directly threatened by their livelihoods do not speak even if they show symptoms of the coronavirus, fearing that a complete blockade could exacerbate their livelihood difficulties, the source said.
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