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Practical Step for Advanced Anti-epidemic Capability Taken in DPRK
Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- A vigorous work for introducing advanced and scientific anti-epidemic capability was launched in the DPRK to durably protect the people's health and safety even in a sudden crisis.

A publicity campaign is being intensified to make the officials and working masses deeply understand in a theoretical way the validity and scientific accuracy of the measures taken by the Party and the state and build up the all-people anti-epidemic line.

Emergency anti-epidemic units at all levels and preventive and curative organs strive to confirm coronavirus infected cases accurately and treat them in time by scrupulously organizing the work to monitor the persons with fever and putting the laboratory test on a more rapid and scientific basis.

Improving the rules and regulations in a scientific consideration of every factor and space to strictly check the outbreak and inroads of new COVID-19 variant, they regulary conduct the strict test on samples collected from dozens of spots in rivers in Pyongyang and border areas and from spots with the epidemic risk in each province.

After additionally installing more than 11, 300 temporary quarantine wards in rural areas busy with farming, they have conducted an intensive medical checkup of agricultural workers and volunteers and deployed anti-epidemic posts at workteams and sub-workteams to compulsorily disinfect travelers, vehicles and tools.

The public health sector has intensified the work to develop and introduce the optimal treatment methods and tactics. As a result, the number of recoveries from fever is increasing with each passing day.

A work is intensified to cement the material and technical foundations for enhancing the state anti-epidemic capability.

On the basis of study on the efficient anti-epidemic experiences of various countries and deep analysis of the mistakes and lessons drawn from the past one month of anti-epidemic campaign, research groups have striven to steadily update the Korean-style anti-epidemic system and method. A quadruple test information system for novel coronavirus infected case was developed and a work is going in real earnest to apply it to all curative and preventive organs and set up a high-level test room at every city and county hygienic and anti-epidemic centers and equip them with latest test facilities and means in addition.

Scientists in the bioengineering field put spurs on the development of new virucide suited to the Korean people's constitution.

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