BEIJING: Sixteen officials from Jilin province have been punished for failing to perform their duties adequately during its ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, the provincial disciplinary authority said.
Two mainland cities, including China’s southern gateway city Shenzhen, have sacked and punished dozens of officials for falling short in their fight against Covid 19, as the mainland battles the largest outbreaks in multiple cities since the Wuhan outbreak in 2020. Futian district in Shenzhen, which was hit by a rise in Covid-19 cases, sacked eight officials for dereliction of.
Northeast China s Jilin Province registered more than 2,000 COVID-19 infections in a day, with 1,412 confirmed cases and 744 silent carriers. The defective emergency response in some regions accounted for the sharp rise of infections, the provincial government said on Sunday.
As China faces its severest domestic COVID-19 outbreaks in two years with a record 1,807 new cases reported on Sunday, the country has launched a swift response to contain the virus spread, including allowing rapid antigen tests for public use and sacking senior officials for their slack response to the ongoing health crisis.