In the wake of the emergency measure taken by the Party and state, the Non-Permanent Central Public Health Guidance Committee of the DPRK declared that the hygienic and anti-epidemic system will be switched to a state emergency anti-epidemic one till the danger of the novel coronavirus infection disappears.

The emergency anti-epidemic headquarters have been formed in Pyongyang and provinces, cities and counties to concentrate all the efforts on thoroughly checking the spread of the novel coronavirus.