Beijing, China’s capital is going to protect whistleblowers who unveil information about public health emergencies, it announced on Sunday.
The decision is in part of the country’s efforts to rectify some of the systemic faults that restrained its initial response to the COVID-19 outbreak.The Beijing city government stated that it would provide rewards to health workers who unveil crucial information regarding any impending health emergency and will also make sure their safety and legal rights are conserved.In urgent situations, workers could skip the chain of command and report health risks directly to the local government, it said, and as far as their intention was not “malicious”, they would not be subjected to any punishment in case of.
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