North Korea is ramping up COVID-19 disease control efforts ahead of the Eighth Party Congress that is scheduled to be held in January, Daily NK has learned...
The heads of inminban, North Korea’s lowest administrative unit, are keeping close tabs on hygiene among the households they watch over. In practice, this means that inminban heads are checking that people are abiding by quarantine rules and sanitizing their houses and hands four times a day.
Locals have reportedly been ordered to make their antiseptic solution from the extract provided by their inminban. One source said that the head of a local inminban told residents under her charge to boil water with half a spoon of salt for two hours if they are running low on antiseptic solution.
Inspectors also urged households to add garlic concentrate to their side dishes every day or even to just “sniff it” to prevent infection. They are spreading other unverified disease control information as well, including the claim that “a nation that eats soybean bean paste and kimchi can get out from under this infectious disease.”
Here, the mortality rate from other diseases has gone down as we count all deaths with covid as deaths from covid. In NK, they will probably see an increase in judicial executions to keep the covid rate down.
ReplyDeleteSam - yes, from various reports, catching the disease is regarded as a crime against the state and unless they have influence, victims are carted off to isolation camps where they just die or recover. Judicial executions effectively.
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