Beijing Municipality’s Public Security Bureau launched a criminal investigation Tuesday against a local bar owner for allegedly “obstructing the prevention of infectious diseases” after the government accused the Beijing area of being the center of China’s latest coronavirus outbreak last week. situation Global Times reported.
Beijing officials said the owner of Heaven Supermarket Bar in the city’s Chaoyang District did not follow municipal protocol that requires customers to present their health codes before entering any public place. The health code is stored in a smartphone app controlled by the Chinese government, which displays various information such as the time and result of China’s latest coronavirus test.
On June 14, the Chaoyang District Market Inspection Department said it had revoked the license to operate Heaven Supermarket Bar and found that the business had “grossedly violated the law and engaged in dishonest acts.”
“Apart from the bar owner, Beijing police have filed five more criminal cases, including the case of a bar patron who wandered freely from one place to another despite being told to be observed by home quarantine,” the report said. Global Times It was announced on Tuesday.
A healthcare worker in a protective suit looks at her phone next to a locked community following the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Beijing, China, 13 June 2022. (Photo by Kevin Fryer/Getty Images)
Beijing health officials said an unidentified user who visited the Heaven supermarket bar “in several bars and nightclubs in Chaoyang in the days before and after his fever” last week was responsible for the alleged outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus in Beijing. Patient Zero “Infected at least 183 people in 15 districts. [of Beijing] yet,” Agence France-Presse reported on 13 June.
Chaoyang is home to 3.5 million people and is Beijing’s most populated place. The Beijing government reopened nightclubs in Chaoyang on June 6, after the previous lockdown in the area due to the Chinese coronavirus, when infection was discovered in the Heaven Supermarket bar cluster last week. Health authorities in Beijing decided to close all Chaoyang nightclubs again on June 9 to curb the new epidemic.
Greater Beijing has been implementing various levels of lockout since April 28 to curb the previous Chinese coronavirus outbreak, but the city government has said it will begin reducing widespread travel restrictions on May 29. The latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak in Chaoyang, Beijing, has been reported to have been detected in primary schools in the District.
“Students, along with clusters associated with six schools and two kindergartens in Chaoyang, account for more than 30% of total cases,” the Associated Press (AP) reported at the time.
“And on Thursday [April 28]Residents of two residential complexes in Beijing’s Chaoyang District were ordered to stay indoors, and several clinics and businesses were closed.
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