Residents queue up for nucleic acid test at a testing site in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Dec. 21, 2021. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)
XI'AN, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Liu Jun, head of the big data management bureau in the northwest Chinese city of Xi'an, has been suspended from the post after the city's health code system malfunctioned, local authorities said Wednesday.
Liu was suspended from the post for failing to fulfill his duty, according to the Xi'an Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.
On Dec. 20, the health code system in Xi'an, which was hit by the latest round of COVID-19 infections, crashed due to high traffic, causing inconveniences to local residents.
At a later press briefing, Liu apologized to local residents for the crash and inconveniences. However, the system malfunctioned once again on Tuesday before resuming service in the afternoon.
Xi'an, with 13 million residents, logged 95 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of local cases since Dec. 9 to 1,758. ■
