Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The State Emergency Epidemic Prevention Headquarters (SEEPH) issued the following announcement on Aug. 26:

DPRK citizens abroad have been allowed to return home, according to the decision of the SEEPH of the DPRK to adjust the anti-epidemic degree in reference to the eased worldwide pandemic situation.

Those returned will be put under proper medical observation at quarantine wards for a week. -0-