SHANGHAI - Authorities have punished five officials in China's Zhengzhou city for deliberately turning thousands of citizens' health codes red, the local anti-corruption authority said in a statement published late on Wednesday .
The local government announcement comes after depositors of small rural banks in Henan province, where Zhengzhou is located, publicly alleged that their health codes abruptly changed from green to red when they began to travel to Henan to protest blocked withdrawals.
In total, 1,317 individual depositors saw their codes turn red due to Feng and Feng's cohorts' actions. The officials"severely damaged the seriousness of the regulations governing the use of health codes," the authorities said.
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