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A Xi’an hospital has been fined for refusing to admit a pregnant lady.

Hospital officials in Xi'an, China's northernmost city, have been reprimanded after a pregnant lady miscarried after being denied admittance due to a lack of current COVID-19 test results.

Hospital officials in Xi’an, China’s northernmost city, have been reprimanded after a pregnant lady miscarried after being denied admittance due to a lack of current COVID-19 test results.

Gaoxin Hospital General Manager Fan Yuhui has been suspended, and the heads of the outpatient department and medical department have been fired, according to the city administration.

The incident “raised broad worry in society and had a serious social impact,” according to a government statement.

Liu Shunzhi, the chairman of the city’s health department, issued the statement during a press conference, apologizing to the woman, who is recovering, and for “offering insufficient access to medical treatment and inadequate service for individuals with specific requirements.”

According to official media, the system will “establish green channels for people with particular needs and make every effort to ensure that all received attention throughout the pandemic.”

The pregnant woman was suffering from abdominal pain and was forced to wait for two hours outside the hospital on New Year’s Day on a pink plastic stool. According to widely circulated tales that accompanied a video recorded by her husband showing a pool of blood at the scene, she subsequently began bleeding violently.

Xi’an, a 13-million-strong city, has been under rigorous lockdown for more than two weeks, sparking complaints about food shortages and overbearing behavior by authorities under intense pressure to reduce COVID-19 case counts.

The city stated that an inquiry into the occurrence had been conducted, but provided no further details. The hospital has been ordered to apologize publicly, compensate victims, and “optimize the medical treatment procedure.”

It was unclear how many hospital employees were disciplined in total, but they joined a growing list of authorities who had been disciplined over the outbreak’s treatment.

Two more high-ranking officials from the Xi’an Emergency Center and the Xi’an Municipal Health Commission were given formal warnings by the city administration on Thursday, according to the local government.

On Thursday, Xi’an reported another 63 instances of COVID-19, the delta form, increasing the total number of cases in the month-long outbreak to almost 1,800, with no deaths reported.

Officials said the city, which is home to the famous Terracotta Warriors monuments as well as significant businesses, has effectively ceased community transmission because all new cases were among those who had already been quarantined.

While the numbers are tiny in comparison to outbreaks in the United States and abroad, they occur less than a month before the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

This has put officials under enormous pressure to restrict infections, triggering an escalation of already harsh measures under China’s “zero tolerance” plan, which includes quarantining every case, mass testing, and putting entire cities under quarantine.

All international flights were canceled at Xi’an’s main airport on Wednesday. Domestic flights had previously been halted as part of the city’s encirclement. Thousands of infected people’s close friends and family members have been quarantined.

Following an outbreak in Henan province, just west of Shaanxi province, whose capital is Xi’an, authorities are enacting more strict safeguards.

On Thursday, another 69 cases were reported, and officials have been imposing a prohibition on intercity travel, save for rare circumstances.

Yuzhou, a city in the province, was also put under lockdown after three asymptomatic cases were discovered. Since then, the number of cases has risen steadily, with 55 being reported by Thursday afternoon.

In the metropolis of 1.17 million people, only emergency vehicles are allowed on the roads, classes have been canceled, and businesses that cater to the public have closed for everything except the most basic needs.

Despite the fact that only a few instances have been found, several other cities in the province have ordered mass testing and closed public venues.

After indications of coronavirus were discovered at an exit point at the local train station in Shanxi province, the city of Yongji and its population of over 500,000 were placed under lockdown.

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