The Covid-19 Chinese health code system that strictly regulates the people’s movement falls in Xi’an this week, worsening conditions in the city locked where the country’s worst outbreak since Wuhan has taken place.
The accident has a complicated effort to get rid of cases through mass testing, creating obstacles for people who seek hospital care and lead to suspension of the highest officials, the latest among many bureaucrats to be punished for Beijing’s smoke for the situation.
Liu Jun, Head of the Xi’an Large Data Bureau, for the time being dismissed for performance failure, said the Communist Party Committee in a statement. While the committee did not explicitly put the reason behind his decision, it came after the Xi’an health code system – which was under PurView Liu and tracked individual movements and vaccination status – strike on Tuesday.
The system accident means that the locals cannot access their Covid infection status after Xi’an started a new round of nucleic acid tests, according to media reports. The provincial government said in a statement later that the system was temporarily paralyzed due to extraordinary traffic, and was repaired. It also experienced technical problems in December.
People must show their health code – which proves that they tested the negative for Covid – to enter the hospital.
The Provincial Women’s Federation is investigating the report that a pregnant woman in Xi’an lost her baby after being rejected into the hospital on the new year’s day because she could not show her infection free through the Health Code Application, Portal Media Ifeng. com reported. A video posted on Tuesday showed what was seen as a woman who was bleeding on the sidewalk outside the hospital in the Gaoxin District Xi’an was a trend in Weibo.
Similar complaints and criticism were seen elsewhere in Chinese social media because patients failed to get timely care at the hospital were overwhelmed by the virus.
With more than 1,700 cases, the situation of the virus in Xi’an has triggered a lack of food and medical care in the middle of the lock that has forbid more than 13 million residents to leave their homes without special reasons. Strict steps – some of the toughest in the world – came as a Chinese authority competed to reduce the Covid outbreak of the country ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics next month, and has caused increasing vocal frustration among the local residents among the local population.
China is the only country involved in practicing a zero-tolerance covid strategy, which involves increasing steps to bring infection to zero. While the Xi’an outbreak is a Delta variant, the Omicron filter that is more translucent now shaking the world will challenge the approach further. Mainland China has not reported the spread of the Omicron community.
Two other local officials, including Deputy Mayor, removed this week for handling their outbreaks.
“The Xi’an outbreak is the most severe after Lockdown Wuhan,” Zeng Guang, one of the covid-19 peak advisors and former Chinese head of Chinese scientists for controlling and prevention of disease, quoted by local newspapers Tuesday. . “We hope Xi’an can create new experiences in loading outbreaks in the short term, after losing control at the initial stage.”
