Beijing: China has sent three people to prison for up to four years more than violating the rules that lead to a virus outbreak, in one of the harshest punishment for irregularities in enforcing the strong Covid-zero policy.
Violations at the cargo company in Dalian, a port in the northeast, including failure to ensure employees wore masks, avoid visiting public places after hours, and were well closed and tested, Global Times reported at the end of Tuesday, which allowed four people to Infect 83 others.
This episode involves a cargo ship carrying frozen items to Dalian in mid-November 2020, said the news website managed by the government.
Company controller, legal representatives and supervisors are given prison provisions from 39 to 57 months ago.
The company was 800,000 yuan fined ($ 125,500), according to the news site, which did not provide the full name of the company or individual, or name court.
At the end of 2020, China saw a flareups virus in Liaoning, the second largest city was Dalian, and in Beijing.
China’s authority highly protects the capital city, often requires negative Covid tests to enter by aircraft or trains, and strictly track the movements of people around the city with a cellular app.
China claims that Coronavirus can survive in conditions found in cold chain food and packaging, and the authorities have tested imported meat and seafood for traces of viruses.
The International Health Authority underestimates the possibility of the transmission.
Dalian handles around 70% of total cold imported chain products in economics No.
2 of the world.
In November last year, the city connected Flarup which caused placing tens of thousands of students under locking in the cold chain industry.