Lockdown city Xian suspends data chief over Covid-19 tracing app failures

The Chinese city of Xian suspended its top official in charge of big data after the system powering the local health code app, a critical tool in China’s zero-Covid strategy, crashed for a second time.Xian’s Communist Party committee announced on Wednesday morning that Liu Jun, director and party chief of the Xian Big Data Resources Administration, had been suspended for “dereliction of duty”.The northwestern city in Shaanxi province has experienced one of China’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks since…

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