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Guide for Treating COVID-19 Issued in DPRK
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) - A guide for treating COVID-19 was worked out and issued to curative and preventive organs at all levels and relevant units in Pyongyang and local areas amid the state emergency measures taken to swiftly curb the spread of epidemic.

The public health and epidemic prevention sectors conducted in a lightening way the work to immediately draw up a specialized guide for scientific and rational treatment under the condition that human losses were caused by over-dosage and other errors from the lack of knowledge about scientific treatment methods.

The guide consists of parts for adult, children and pregnant women.

Specified in the guide are the definition of novel coronavirus and the indices confirming infected case, which include epidemiological analysis, clinical signs, RT-PCR test and antibody detection. The guide says that when one of those indices is tested positive, it will be confirmed to be a coronavirus case.

Detailed in it are the standard judging severity of COVID-19 case and the principles of general treatment: Medicament treatment is individualized according to the progress of disease and severity, and medicines and their usage are selected and set according to age, constitution and body weight.

It also refers to various treatment tactics and the standard of judging treatment effect according to different symptoms, accessory symptom and patients with special constitution.

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