Guangzhou
Guangzhou: Chinese investigators target officials over coronavirus outbreak
Guangzhou: Officials in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou are going to be held accountable over COVID-19 outbreak in the region.
A task force of municipal and provincial Communist Party disciplinary officials had been set up to investigate possible dereliction of duty among Guangzhou cadres, Southern Daily reported on Sunday as quoted by The South China Morning Post.
“[The investigation] will be held in accordance with regulations, party discipline and law to hold negligent senior cadres and officials to account,” the report cited Guangdong disciplinary watchdog notice as saying.
The city has witnessed a surge in COVID-19 cases in recent times.
Mass testing and lockdowns of certain areas were reported in recent times.
The city has cited the Delta variant of the coronavirus, first detected in India, as a driver behind the uptick in cases it has reported since the latter part of May. The Delta strain is known to be highly transmissible, CNBC reported.
Guangzhou, a city of over 15 million people and the provincial capital, has reported 96 of the over 100 cases in Guangdong province in this latest outbreak, the news channel reported.
China is suspected to be the first nation from where COVID-19 originated.
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