Although North Korea claims to have no COVID-19 patients, the Daily NK has learned that the number of people suffering from COVID-19 symptoms in isolation facilities in the country is increasing rapidly.
The Daily NK source, speaking on condition of anonymity, reported yesterday that internal reports in the country indicated that, as of November 1, a total of 81,000 people had been placed in quarantine. This number, however, does not include soldiers currently in quarantine, suggesting that the total number of isolations is much greater.
North Korean authorities have delegated control of isolation facilities in each region of the country to provincial party committees, and local “anti-epidemic emergency committees” under the party’s provincial committees “administer and support” these facilities, the sources reported.
The Daily NK has learned that an additional 2,000 troops from the so-called Storm Corps have been deployed to the city of Hyesan, Yanggang Province, which has recently been put on lockdown.
