BEIJING: More than 30 Chinese officials have been fired or received other penalties on charges that the country failed to properly respond to the latest surge of the coronavirus.
Among those sacked were a deputy mayor, heads of the city’s districts and health commissions, and employees of hospital management, airport and tourism departments.
China’s National Health Commission announced on Monday that 94 new cases of domestic transmission have been reported in the past 24 hours.
Latest outbreak linked to eastern city airport Nanjing. The highly contagious Delta variant spread among airport workers and has since spread from the tropics Hainan Province in the south Inner Mongolia in the far north.
The outbreak has prompted renewed travel restrictions, community lockdowns and the sealing of entire cities. zhangjiajieWith a population of 1.5 million.
Among those sacked were a deputy mayor, heads of the city’s districts and health commissions, and employees of hospital management, airport and tourism departments.
China’s National Health Commission announced on Monday that 94 new cases of domestic transmission have been reported in the past 24 hours.
Latest outbreak linked to eastern city airport Nanjing. The highly contagious Delta variant spread among airport workers and has since spread from the tropics Hainan Province in the south Inner Mongolia in the far north.
The outbreak has prompted renewed travel restrictions, community lockdowns and the sealing of entire cities. zhangjiajieWith a population of 1.5 million.
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