North Korea's state media said on Sunday that it has lifted the preventive quarantine placed on about three-thousand-600 people over novel coronavirus concerns.
 
According to the North's radio broadcaster, the Korean Central Broadcasting Station, around three-thousand-650 people who were put under quarantine for medical monitoring have been released as of Thursday, including some one-thousand-20 in Kangwon Province and two-thousand-630 in Chagang Province.
 
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said earlier on Friday that the country released 221 out of 380 foreigners who were held in quarantine.
 
According to the North Korean media reports, about seven thousand people are thought to be under quarantine or medical monitoring --- 39-hundred in South Pyongan and Kangwon Province and about three-thousand in North Pyongan Province.
 
North Korea has claimed that the country has no suspected or confirmed cases of the coronavirus.