Seoul provides Tamiflu to workers at inter-Korean industrial park

SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Yonhap) -- Seoul recently provided the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to
South Korean workers at a joint industrial park in North Korea as a precautionary
measure against a possible outbreak of the Influenza A virus, officials said
Sunday.
"The government has provided Tamiflu for some 30 South Korean workers stationed
at the Kaesong industrial park," a government official said, asking not to be
named.
The official said that the provision was to be used in emergency situations,
adding that no H1N1 infections have been reported at the Kaesong park.
South Korea has set up heat detection cameras at its transit offices at the
inter-Korean border and checks body temperature of hundreds of South Koreans who
daily commute to the park. On-the-spot medical checkups have also been enforced
at a hospital inside the joint park.
Earlier this month, the North's Korean Central News Agency said "strict
anti-epidemic work is now under way" and that "no A/H1N1 flu case has yet
occurred" in the country.
The North has stepped up quarantine inspections at its airport and border posts
"to cope with the situation where the number of new influenza cases is on the
steady increase in the countries and region geographically close to the DPRK
(North Korea)," the report said.
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