The eighth Politburo meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Korean workers' party was held in Pyongyang on the same day, KCNA reported on the 12th. The meeting decided to turn the Korean national epidemic prevention system into the largest emergency epidemic prevention system. North Korea's national emergency epidemic prevention department sampled and tested some patients with fever symptoms in Pyongyang on the 8th and found that someone was infected with the Omikron variant virus. North Korea took measures on the 11th to require local residents to observe at home.
It is reported that this is the first time that North Korea has reported the discovery of COVID-19 in its own country since the outbreak of new coronal pneumonia in many places around the world.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Korean workers' party, attended the meeting held on the 12th and pointed out that the purpose of the deployment of the largest emergency epidemic prevention system is to curb and control the spread of imported novel coronavirus in North Korea, cure the infected as soon as possible and eliminate the epidemic in the shortest time.
At the meeting, Kim Jong Un stressed the necessity of emergency deployment and scientific centralized testing and treatment, and decided to distribute the spare medical supplies reserved by the party and the government in response to the emergency period. Kim Jong Un asked all cities and counties across the country to be blocked, the health department and emergency quarantine department to strictly conduct intensive screening of all residents and actively take medical observation and treatment measures. At the same time, we should strengthen the disinfection of every corner of the working space, working space and living space, and cut off and eliminate the root causes of virus transmission.
North Korean media quoted Kim Jong Un as saying that even if the epidemic prevention situation is no matter how bad, it can not stop the pace of all-round development of North Korea's socialist construction, let alone ignore the development of economic work. He stressed that all units should do a better job in the organization, scheduling and command of economic work, and maximize the current agricultural production and the production of important industrial departments and enterprises. Party and government organs should minimize the inconvenience to the people caused by the implementation of a high blockade, ensure people's basic life, and take practical measures to prevent the slightest negative phenomenon.
Kim Jong Un also said that we should further consolidate the national defense outpost and use armed forces to ensure the victory of the epidemic prevention war. We should further strengthen the vigilance and duty tasks on the front and border, at sea and in the air, and the national defense department should ensure that there are no security loopholes.
In addition, according to KCNA, in addition to turning the national epidemic prevention system into the largest emergency epidemic prevention system, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Korean workers' Party made the following decision on the 12th on the serious situation of the Omikron mutant virus in North Korea: the national emergency epidemic prevention command took practical measures to strictly control and command the national epidemic prevention work; Party and government organs, economic organs, security, force organs and other departments regard the decision-making and deployment of the national emergency epidemic prevention command as the requirements of the Party Central Committee, unconditionally accept and resolutely implement it in place, and carry out work in an orderly manner according to the maximum emergency epidemic prevention system.
At the beginning of the global outbreak of COVID-19, the DPRK transformed the health and epidemic prevention system into a "national emergency health and epidemic prevention system" and adopted strict epidemic prevention measures. For example, the DPRK people must strictly wear masks when traveling; When entering shops, restaurants and other public places, you must measure your temperature and spray disinfectant alcohol on your hands; Shops, restaurants and other public facilities are open until 21 o'clock at the latest every day. At the same time, the DPRK has also closed the border since the beginning of 2020, banning all personnel from entering the country, so as to prevent the introduction of novel coronavirus into the territory.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference on the 12th that China and the DPRK are friendly neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, and both sides have a fine tradition of watching and helping each other. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, the DPRK has always firmly supported China in fighting the epidemic, for which China is deeply grateful. We share the current epidemic prevention situation facing the DPRK. As comrades, neighbors and friends, China is ready to provide full support and assistance to the DPRK in its fight against the epidemic. On the same day, the South Korean Unification Ministry expressed the hope that the COVID-19 in North Korea would subside as soon as possible and no longer spread. The South Korean Unification Ministry also said that in the future, if there is a need for inter Korean cooperation or cooperation with the international community, the South Korean side will actively handle it.