Posted on 04/03/2020 7:26:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SEOUL -- Around 500 people remain under coronavirus quarantine across North Korea, state media reported Friday, a sharp drop from some 2,280 people a week earlier as the communist nation keeps lifting the quarantine for people with no symptoms during the isolation period.
North Korea has insisted it has no confirmed COVID-19 infections but has taken various anti-virus measures, including shutting down its border and putting thousands of people in isolation. The regime has said that preventing the virus is a "political task" that determines the country's fate.
Last week, the official Korean Central News Agency said those subject to "medical monitoring" have been released from quarantine one after another as they have no symptoms following the isolation period and about 2,280 people across the country remain under the monitoring quarantine.
But on Friday, the KCNA said the number fell to some 500.
"Quarantine measures have been lifted strictly under the leadership of the state emergency disease control committee," the KCNA said. "Currently, around 500 remain under quarantine nationwide."
The KCNA added that the North has recently convened a meeting to review nationwide anti-virus efforts and vowed to keep its current state emergency system in place until the viral disease is globally eradicated.
"During the meeting, it was emphasized that the state emergency disease control system should be maintained until the viral disease completely goes away globally and that preventive work should be intensified with conformity of action from all society and all citizens," the KCNA said.
Despite the repeated claims of no confirmed cases, speculation persists that the North might be hushing up an outbreak and be in dire need for outside help to stem its spread.
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translation: Of all infected Norks 500 are politically too well-connected to be shot.
500? That many.Sorry, 500, you’re outta luck. They only have one ventilator in the country and they are still trying to figure out how to convert it to a missile and attach a nuclear warhead to it.
They will be taken on a Ugandan bus ride....
Room temperature quarantine.
Looks like a snap shot from a dream the democrats and media have for Trump and wife.
If they admit to 500 that means it’s 5,000,000
Not only no deaths so far, but zero confirmed cases.
The mainstream media must be amazed at the efficiency of the North Korean government in managing this crisis. It can only be a matter of time before the msm holds them up as a governance model for all of us to follow citing their fantastic success at controlling the virus. (Although they might omit mention of their locking down the border.)
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