Chinese town bordering Mongolia punishes six senior officials for lax response to latest COVID-19 outbreak
A medical worker takes a swab sample at a nucleic acid testing site in Ejina Banner of Alxa League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 2021. Photo: Xinhua
The Chinese city of Ejin Banner, which borders Mongolia, on Saturday announced tough sanctions against six officials, including the heads of the local health commission, for their lax response and ineffective management since COVID-19 broke out. October 17.
The city fired the director and deputy director of the local health board. Another health commission official, three police officers, as well as the local people’s hospital and civil affairs bureau will be held accountable.
Ejin Banner in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the first city to impose sanctions on officials since the latest outbreak of COVID-19 emerged in several locations, including the capital Beijing, Xi’an in Shaanxi, northwest China, and Jiayuguan, northwest China. Gansu in northwest China.
An expert told the Global Times last week that a possibility could not be ruled out that loopholes in Inner Mongolia’s ports could have triggered the nationwide outbreak.
According to the regional health commission, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reported 49 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases as of 11 a.m. Sunday, with 31 cases detected in Ejin Banner.
The latest outbreak of COVID-19, which has spread to 11 provinces within a week, was triggered by a new imported source, which was later diagnosed as the Delta variant, officials from China’s top health authority say. Sunday.
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A medical worker takes a swab sample at a nucleic acid testing site in Ejina Banner of Alxa League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 2021. Photo: Xinhua
The Chinese city of Ejin Banner, which borders Mongolia, on Saturday announced tough sanctions against six officials, including the heads of the local health commission, for their lax response and ineffective management since COVID-19 broke out. October 17.
The city fired the director and deputy director of the local health board. Another health commission official, three police officers, as well as the local people’s hospital and civil affairs bureau will be held accountable.
Ejin Banner in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the first city to impose sanctions on officials since the latest outbreak of COVID-19 emerged in several locations, including the capital Beijing, Xi’an in Shaanxi, northwest China, and Jiayuguan, northwest China. Gansu in northwest China.
An expert told the Global Times last week that a possibility could not be ruled out that loopholes in Inner Mongolia’s ports could have triggered the nationwide outbreak.
According to the regional health commission, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reported 49 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases as of 11 a.m. Sunday, with 31 cases detected in Ejin Banner.
The latest outbreak of COVID-19, which has spread to 11 provinces within a week, was triggered by a new imported source, which was later diagnosed as the Delta variant, officials from China’s top health authority say. Sunday.
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