Fajarasia.co – China is one of the ‘starting points’ for the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
With the city of Wuhan, being one of the regions in China that was known to have spread the new type of Corona virus, SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019.
After being relatively successful in controlling the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak in recent years, China or China is now ‘haunted’ again by a new wave of Covid-19 infections!
After Shanghai, it’s the turn of the capital city of China, Beijing, which has been hit by a ‘storm’ of Covid-19 recently.
Faced with the situation, Beijing fired its top health official, as the Chinese capital battled a surge in Covid-19 cases despite the country’s strict zero-tolerance policy.
The city of 22 million has reported hundreds of cases of Covid-19 in recent weeks, in the outbreak sparked by the Omicron variant, the largest since the start of the pandemic.
Millions of people have been ordered to work from home, with most bus and subway services suspended. Meanwhile thousands of people were transferred to quarantine hotels, after several cases were detected in their housing complex.
Yu Luming, the head of the Beijing Health Commission, was removed from his position, Xinhua reported on Wednesday May 25, 2022 as reported by Channel News Asia.
Yu Luming is suspected of committing “serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing a disciplinary examination and surveillance investigation,” Xinhua said, without providing further details.
From that policy, China continued to impose strict lockdowns and restrictions on movement in several cities.
Even as large parts of the world have turned to coexistence schemes with the coronavirus.
In Beijing, many parks, restaurants, schools and shops remain closed
The Communist Party’s Beijing News reported on Wednesday that Beijing Deputy Mayor Wang Hong submitted his resignation.
However, a brief Beijing News report did not mention the reason.
Local officials who have been unable to contain the Covid-19 outbreak in China have been regularly fired or punished since the pandemic began.
This includes some Shanghai officials, after the outbreak brought the city to a standstill.****
