Coronavirus: central Chinese city of Wuhan targets price gougers
- Deputy mayor says vendors in nearly 300 cases ordered to rectify charges for their goods; metropolis has enough food for a month
- China reports 427 new cases, only four outside Hubei province
Beijing announced 427 new cases on Saturday, a day after China’s National Health Commission reported a record low in new infections for February, at 327.
Only four of the new cases on the mainland were recorded outside Hubei – where Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus emerged – the lowest figure recorded outside the province since January 23, when lockdowns and other massive emergency measures were implemented.
A further 47 new deaths were reported in China, bringing the total to 2,835. Mainland China has now recorded 79,251 infections, with 39,002 patients recovered. South Korea has now reported 3,150 cases.
Wuhan tackles price gougers
Xu Honglan, the deputy mayor of the central Chinese city of Wuhan, said on Saturday that the government had “cracked down” on more than 300 cases of price inflation since the start of the city’s lockdown on January 23.
Of the 339 cases, the accused in 298 instances were ordered to correct their “irregular pricing”.