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Protective Anti-Epidemic Stance Taken in DPRK
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- All sectors and units of the DPRK are making every effort to preserve the protective anti-epidemic stance in keeping with the current nationwide stable epidemic situation.

The state emergency anti-epidemic headquarters exert great efforts to making the practical measures for improving the scientific accuracy and progress of the anti-epidemic work be materialized with perfect executive guarantee.

The works for further perfecting the medical check-up system for more correctly identifying the malignant virus, detecting every kind of epidemic diseases which can possibly break out according to the seasonal or regional factors in their early stages and taking correct preventive and curative measures have been carried on.

And a work for establishing a new analysis process facilitating the observance of the outbreak and spread of epidemics owing to variants of COVID-19 and pathogenic microorganism is pushed ahead with.

The work for equipping the test rooms of second level of biological safety under construction across the country with dozens of equipment including the all-time PCR equipment and reinforcing examination equipment to the areas around frontline, boundary and coasts as well as epidemically dangerous zones is also in progress.

The emergency anti-epidemic units at all levels have taken intensive measures for making the detailed survey of the number of sporadically occurred new fever cases according to date and age and quarantining and treating the patients.

They have intensified the works for correctly judging the polluted level of rivers and streams by heavy and much rain at water examination posts set up across the country.

The public health sector is enhancing the specialization level by constantly reinforcing and updating the content of the treatment guides on the basis of synthesizing the experience and lessons gained in treatment.

The Ministry of Public Health and medical worker training institutions are actively organizing technical courses and lectures so as to help medical workers of preventive and curative organs at all levels improve the efficiency of their treatment of patients according to the treatment guides.

The doctors in charge of households and hygienic workers are more positively conducting medical check-up and health education in order to prevent every sort of poisoning cases, enteric epidemic, etc. which can break out in summer.

On July 9 alone a million and hundreds of thousands of anti-epidemic and public health workers and hygienic workers have conducted health education activities at residential quarters and relevant units.

The measures for reinforcing the unified and professional system for facilitating the observance, forecast, control and management of epidemic diseases and building up the ranks of medical workers of the terminal preventive and curative organs are being taken on a nationwide scale.

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