Three local government officials were punished as they were held accountable for inefficiency in preventing and controlling the spread of novel coronavirus in Yueqing, East China’s Zhejiang province, according to a notice from the provincial commission for discipline inspection on Sunday. The notice said the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yueqing, a county-level city in Wenzhou, a city with the largest number of confirmed cases outside the virus epicenter in Central China’s Hubei province, failed to perform its duties in checking, recording and reporting people who had close contact with infected patients, and didn’t report the cases arising from gatherings in time, leading to a leak in the virus control network. As of Sunday, 84 people in Yueqing had been confirmed as infected with the novel coronavirus, the most among counties and districts in Wenzhou. Ni Chengjian, director of the center and Xie Mingrong, director of Yueqing’s health administration, were removed from their posts. Chen Weiyan, vice-mayor of Yueqing who is in charge of the city’s health affairs, received a serious warning from the local Party committee. In the notice, Zhejiang’s Discipline Inspection Commission also called on officials to learn from this lesson and perform their duties regarding… Read full this story
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