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THE NUMBER OF new coronavirus cases in an outbreak in China’s north-east tripled today and authorities tightened control on access to Shanghai in the east.
Bus services in the city of 24 million people were suspended and a negative Covid-19 test was required from anyone who wanted to enter.
The government reported 1,938 new cases on China’s mainland, more than triple the previous day’s total.
About three-quarters of those – 1,412 cases – were in Jilin province in the north-east, where access to the industrial city of Changchun has been suspended.
Families there were told to stay at home following a spate of infections.
China’s infection numbers are relatively low but authorities are enforcing a “zero tolerance” strategy to find and quarantine every infected person.
In Hong Kong, the territory’s government reported 15,789 new daily cases, down by almost half from yesterday’s total.
The territory’s leader, chief executive Carrie Lam, warned that the latest infection surge might not yet be past its peak.
Authorities in Jilin are stepping up anti-disease measures after concluding that their earlier response was inadequate, according to Zhang Yan, deputy director of the provincial Health Commission.
“The emergency response mechanism in some areas is not sound enough,” he said at a news conference, according to a transcript released by the government.
In Shanghai, China’s most populous city, the number of cases in the latest surge rose by 15 to 432.
The city government called on the public not to leave unless necessary. It said bus services would be suspended from today.
“Those who come or return to Shanghai must have a negative nucleic acid test report within 48 hours before arrival,” said a city health agency statement.
On the mainland, 831 new cases were reported in Changchun, 571 in the nearby provincial capital city of Jilin, 150 in the eastern port city of Qingdao and 60 in Shenzhen, a business centre adjacent to Hong Kong.
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Unbeknownst? Time for these companies to be hammered for such “errors”.
@Ed: That’s usually the case in leaks. The company often gets alerted by people who suffered from the leak a year or so after the fact.
BTW this site is a handy way to search the lists of publicly known leaks: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
@John Murphy: my iPhone told me I was owned when I tried to log into a website the other day and suggested I change the password there. A government website as well but not in Ireland.
“700,000 documents dating from 2014 to 2017 were stored in the folder, including some passports, drivers’ licenses and compliance-related forms”
So nothing is private any more, all our private information is now floating around cyber space freely available to criminals.
Will anybody be held to account?? will customers be compensated?? Joke of a country, can do nothing right. Those responsible should be face criminal charges.
@SteveBuzzard: what’s the “country” got to do with a private company. They should have deleted most of this info though, according to GDPR rules.
@Eugene Norman: Not true. GDPR does not put any time scale on how long companies have to hold data. The Data Protection Act requires them to delete it 7 years after the end of the relationship with the individual so actually very little of it should have been deleted
I thought they are supposed to delete verification documents after a certain period… Not keep them.
Prosecutions? I imagine not of course.
@Franky Jefferson: yeah, all customer data can only be stored for a maximum of 6 months.
@Peter Cavey: Incorrect. GDPR does not put a time frame how long companies can hold you’re data. The Data Protection Act requires companies to delete data after 7 years
@Peter Cavey: Incorrect. Best not comment without correct facts
@M. Murphy: People do be getting very heated about GDPR.
Was it leaky Leo
@Marty Lawless: who?? Oh.. you mean Leako Varadkar
The statement that there is no evidence that the data was accessed rings false when you consider it was an external, independent company that found the data publicly accessible. Unless the server itself was publicly available on the cloud, a serious data security error in of itself, the data had to be accessed for it to have become publicly available.
“700,000 documents dating from 2014 to 2017 were stored in the folder, including some passports, drivers’ licenses and compliance-related forms”
So nothing is private any more, all our private information is now floating around cyber space freely available to criminals.
Will anybody be held to account?? will customers be compensated?? Joke of a country, can do nothing right. Those responsible should face criminal charges.
@SteveBuzzard: Oh FFS don’t be so dramatic. Yes they will be held accountable. The company will be investigated and sanctioned by the Central Bank and the Data Protection Commissioner. As for compensation unless there is evidence that anyone has suffered a loss or damage as a result of the leak then no they will not be compensated as there is no loss or damage to be compensated for
The more info one has to provide the greater the leak! Convoluted EU nonsensical process management at its finest.
Did you purposely forget to mention the Irish times to plug our own.
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