Covid-19 in China: several officials sanctioned and sacked for their management of the epidemic

In Beijing, in January 2022 (illustration image).

AP - Mark Schiefelbein

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In China, the Covid-19 pandemic leads to sanctions against officials.

Beijing has thus just separated from its health manager and several local government officials have been punished for “ 

” in the management of the epidemic.

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With our correspondent in Beijing,

The contaminations seem to be marking time, this Thursday, May 26, in Beijing, at least in the official reports, which does not prevent heads from rolling.

Yu Luming, Beijing health official, is under investigation for "

", according to the New China agency (the accusation is generally used in the corruption file ).

He was sacked.

Other officials in three districts of the capital and two companies in particular are also subject to sanctions as part of two investigations into recent

, reports the

.

One concerns a China Railway Corporation office, whose employee allegedly let workers leave a Covid-19 control and prevention area.

The other targets a branch of the Yunda express delivery platform which has not organized screening tests for its couriers, as requested by the authorities.

Regular penalties

And then, sanctions were also taken against officials from the industrial supervision and epidemic prevention departments.

Since the appearance of viral pneumonia in Wuhan in the winter of 2020, local officials have been regularly

, which has sometimes led to a certain overzealousness in the application of health measures and the Chinese "zero Covid" strategy. .

In Shanghai, hard hit by containment, at least fifteen officials were punished for their “ 

”, according to state media, and not to say chaotic during the Omicron rebound.

Some observers go so far as to wonder about the future of Li Qiang, secretary of the Communist Party of the Chinese economic capital.

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