State's Counter-crisis Capability Enhanced in DPRK

Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- More measures are taken in the DPRK to enhance the state's counter-crisis capability. A social atmosphere of fierce struggle against any slight factor and practice that can spoil the anti-epidemic environment is consistently maintained, and the work for further cementing the state's anti-epidemic barrier is accurately pushed ahead with as planned. The state emergency anti-epidemic headquarters focuses all its efforts on detecting at an early stage the sources that may pose a sudden threat to the country's security and the people's lives and taking measures against them, while concretely and scrupulously monitoring the nationwide anti-epidemic situation. It thoroughly guarantees the mobilization and implementation of the intensive measures taken to prevent and control the epidemics on a nationwide scale under the unified plan and guidance. It also intensifies the observation and test over spots with epidemic risk and deepens the epidemiologic examination and analysis of diseases similar to COVID-19 in terms of clinical symptom. It has further completed in a technical aspect the programs for confirming suspected cases by compiling concrete data on symptoms of COVID-19 in liaison and under cooperation with experts from scientific, educational and medical research organs. It draws up, distributes and introduces into the epidemic prevention guides dealing with how to produce and use the newly-developed disinfectant, while urging the curative and preventive organs to carefully conduct the clinical observation over those with aftereffects and apply the scientific and rational treatment and regimen therapy to them. Relevant sectors and units including the Ministry of Public Health and the Pyongyang University of Medicine have conducted the test of COVID-19 virus in a more efficient way, closely observing the characteristics and change of its sub-variants steadily spreading across the world. -0-