China punishes dozens of officials as Delta variant outbreaks spread

The latest resurgence has spread across more than half of the mainland's 31 provinces. - AFP

BEIJING, Aug 9 (Bloomberg): China has punished a slew of officials for failing to curb a Covid-19 outbreak that’s spawned nearly 900 symptomatic infections across the country in less than a month, a resurgence that complicates Beijing’s strategy of keeping the virus out entirely.

The eastern Chinese city of Yangzhou issued warnings to five officials for mishandling mass testing that they said allowed the virus to continue spreading.