(ANSA) - BEIJING, 12 JAN - Three people responsible for a cargo handling company in the port city of Dalian, in Liaoning, were sentenced to prison terms of between 39 and 57 months for violating the rules for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including the non-use of masks, due to facts dating back to the end of 2020.
The sentence was handed down by the court on Friday, but was leaked today by Chinese media, reconstructing the local outbreak of November 2020 generated, according to local health authorities, by a foreign merchant ship carrying contaminated imported cold chain goods. After the assessment of four asymptomatic employees of the company of the three condemned, fined for 800,000 yuan (126 thousand dollars), the active management of the emergency brought the total to 83 infections, including confirmed and asymptomatic infections.
According to the Dalian court, the three failed to supervise operations personnel who, among other things, did not wear masks as required and who consumed meals with contaminated protective clothing.
In addition, the lack of quarantine led to several traders and consumers in a shopping mall in the city to contract the virus.
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