Officials punished over dereliction of duty during Beijing's COVID-19 fight
A medical worker collects a throat swab from a local resident at a nucleic acid testing site at a community in Balizhuang Street of Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China on June 23, 2020.
Three officials in Beijing have been punished over dereliction of duty during the prevention and control of COVID-19 in the capital city, the municipal authorities said Wednesday.
Jia Qi, the deputy director of the market supervision administration in Beijing's Fengtai District was removed from their intra-Party post and received administrative dismissal, the city's discipline inspection and supervision authority said in a statement.
Cao Cong, the deputy director of the health committee in Fengtai District, and Yang Jijun, deputy head of Huaxiang Township in Fengtai District, were given serious intra-Party warnings as well as administrative demotions.
Beijing recorded seven new confirmed domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the total to 256 since June 11, according to the municipal health commission.
