Wuhan Mayor Who Defended City’s Slow Response to Covid Faces Corruption Probe

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In central China, Wuhan is known as the city of the very first home of the Covid-19, the epidemic that will then cause millions of deaths around the world. Today, the former mayor of this city of six million inhabitants, Zhou Xianwang, is targeted by an investigation for "serious violations", the anti-corruption authorities announced. The vast campaign "against tigers and flies" - this term of the Chinese Communist Party, which punishes importan…

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China's anti-corruption authorities said Tuesday that authorities have launched an investigation into the former mayor of Wuhan, the same mayor who was in office when the coronavirus pandemic that originated in Wuhan broke out.

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Wuhan, Zhou Xianwang's main subway station, located at the beginning of the pandemic, is under investigation for "severe crimes", announced on Saturday the two powerful anti-corruption institutions in China, reports AFP.