The Chinese city of Qingdao has said it suspended its health commission head and sacked a hospital director following an outbreak of coronavirus infections that ended China’s run of about two months without reporting a local case.
The coastal city has reported 13 recent infections, most of them linked to the Qingdao Chest Hospital, where infected travellers arriving from overseas had been treated in an isolation area.
Qingdao announced this week that it would test all of its nine million residents for the virus over a five-day period. More than seven million results had come back as of today morning, with no infections beyond those reported, it said.
