Chinese official suspended after son boasted online about getting round coronavirus travel ban
- The younger man posted that he had been able to travel between two cities in Hubei, where strict curbs on movement are in force
- The province has gone into lockdown in the hope of halting the spread of Covid-19
A Chinese official has been suspended after his son bragged on social media that he had used his connections to get round the strict travel controls in Hubei province.
Several cities have been locked down to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and roads around the province have been closed.
But the young man, named He Hao, boasted that his father had arranged for a car to take him from Tianman city to Jingzhou.
His father He Yanfang is the market director of Jingzhou’s commerce department, according to a government statement posted on Weibo on Saturday.
He Hao had earlier posted a video on the same platform that showed the car passing a toll station in Tianmen with a sign that read “transport restriction”.
He wrote: “I never thought my dad had much power, he has been an official all his life and I had never benefited from it, until this outbreak.