China finds spike in COVID-19 cases in jails, officials fired

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BEIJING: The new coronavirus has infected 234 people in two prisons outside the province at the centre of the epidemic and top officials deemed ...

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and top officials deemed responsible for the outbreaks have been fired, authorities said on Friday .

The jail discovered its first case in a prison officer on Feb 13. Seven prison officials were also fired, authorities told a media briefing.The outbreak revealed that some departments had “poorly implemented their responsibilities, their work was not solid and epidemic prevention measures are inaccurate”, said Yu Chenghe, deputy secretary-general of Shandong provincial government.

The governor of the women’s prison has already been dismissed for failing to control the spread of the virus, the paper said.The director and Communist Party chief of the Shilifeng prison in Zhejiang were sacked and an investigation into the outbreak has been launched, the provincial government said on its social media site.

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