Country shows unique sense of organization, solidarity in anti-epidemic war
The current situation of the spread of malignant virus in the DPRK shows a steady decrease from the rapid increase in the beginning, a positive trend towards stable containment and control of the disease and a daily boost in the number of fully recovered persons all across the country.
The Korean people have keenly realized the validity and scientific accuracy of the emergency epidemic prevention policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the state which have been enforced for two years and three months since the start of the global health crisis through the ongoing anti-epidemic war and are out in the fight against the virus with the conviction that they will surely win the war when they regard the policies of the Party Central Committee as their lifeline and carry them through by maintaining a high degree of unity of voluntary action.
Chemical giants strive to boost fertilizer production
The Namhung Youth Chemical Complex and Hungnam Fertilizer Complex are running the recently expanded production lines at full capacity to raise fertilizer production to a high level.
The Namhung Youth Chemical Complex is directing primary efforts to maximizing its fertilizer production capacity while carrying on current production. Having set forth the normal production of newly installed facilities including compressors as an immediate task, the complex is arousing the technicians and workers to its fulfilment.
Anti-epidemic war witnesses virtues peculiar to Korea
Noble communist virtues and traits of helping and leading one another forward have become commonplace in different parts of the DPRK.
Officials of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea provided needy families with food their households prepared.
‘We strive to hold initiative in anti-epidemic war’
Now when the state epidemic prevention system has been switched over to the top emergency anti-epidemic system, the responsibility and role of officials who are in direct charge of emergency epidemic prevention effort are very important.
Our district maintains heightened vigilance to firmly grasp the initiative in the fierce anti-epidemic war.
Mobile service teams helpful in stabilizing citizens’ life
Officials of the Pyongyang Municipal People’s Committee work to fully grasp and take timely steps to solve the problems arising in the residents’ everyday life.
In close contact with heads of neighborhood units, dong officials in districts learn about the number of family members and the amount of daily necessities and foodstuffs needed for each family in detail and organize services to meet their demands.
‘Thank you’
Now that the state emergency epidemic prevention system switched to the top emergency anti-epidemic system, Party and state officials find themselves among the people, who suffer hardships, closer and more familiarly. As state emergency measures are taken one after another to relieve people of suffering and pains, their grateful thanks are heard everywhere.
Those in South Hwanghae Province gave rein to their excited feeling of gratitude in tears after receiving officinal medicines prepared by the family of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.
To hold definite initiative in anti-epidemic campaign
The spread of the malignant virus is being contained and controlled in a stable manner and the state anti-epidemic basis is further being solidified.
The central emergency anti-epidemic sector is pushing ahead with material and technical preparations to cope with possible dangers and challenges in an all-round way, while concentrating on preventing the spread of the epidemic and curing it.
Posters on anti-epidemic campaign issued
Posters arousing all the people to the campaign against COVID-19 have been produced.
The posters intensively reflect the appeal of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea to all the people and service personnel to keep firm faith and round off the anti-epidemic war, the adamant resolve and will of combatants of the medical sector of the Korean People’s Army to spearhead the campaign to victory on the special order of the WPK Central Military Commission and the requirement for persistently pressing ahead with the struggle for implementing the Party’s line on the comprehensive development of socialism true to the spirit of the Eighth Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Eighth WPK Central Committee.
COVID-19 situation in DPRK
Over 134 510 people contracted fever (over 33 130 less than the previous day), more than 213 680 others fully recovered (some 53 950 less than the previous day) and no dead was reported in the DPRK from 18:00 on May 22 to 18:00 on May 23.
A total of more than 2 948 900 persons caught fever nationwide between late April and 18:00 of May 23, and of them over 2 548 590 (86.425%) were fully recovered and over 400 230 (13.573%) were undergoing treatment.
Admirable traits displayed in crisis
A lot of beautiful traits of helping and caring for one another have been displayed among the Korean people since the Eighth Political Bureau Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea adopted the decision on switching the state emergency epidemic prevention effort to the top emergency anti-epidemic system.
Sin Jong Gil, a resident of neighbourhood unit No. 99, Ponghak-dong, Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, donated to sick neighbours the medicines, including amoxicillin, paracetamol and Uhwangchongsimhwan, that his family had kept, hoping that they would help treat their disease.
