The state emergency anti-epidemic headquarters has intensified the operation for enhancing the detection capability of the new Omicron sub-variants and ensuring the scientific accuracy and objectivity in surveying the nationwide anti-epidemic situation.

Propelled is the work for operating the Korean-style nucleic acid test equipment which have been reinforced in cities and counties of relevant regions.

Towns and countrysides have enhanced their responsibilities so as to select test objects according to age, sexuality, etc., and fully prepare test appliances and supplies.

Great efforts are directed to minutely testing river water sample collected from water quality test posts and dust collected from relevant areas.

The public health sector is pushing ahead with the work for disseminating advanced medical technologies to members involved in the medical check-up and examination so that they are well informed of the symptoms peculiar to various epidemic diseases.

By bringing together all the clinical experiences of medical workers from the lowest curative and preventive organs gained during treatment, the contents of treatment guides have been renewed and supplemented ceaselessly. And research to promptly differentiate monkeypox from other exanthema is making headway at the Academy of Medical Science of the Ministry of Public Health.