-- BEIJING -- In a new twist on a widening scandal, China admitted Monday that unscrupulous dealers had sold fake blood protein to dozens of hospitals and pharmacies, threatening the lives of patients and reportedly killing at least one person.Slam the door shut... do it now.
More than 2,000 bottles of the product with forged labels were discovered at 18 hospitals and 39 drug suppliers in Jilin province in northeastern China, and more than three-quarters of the false blood protein produced had already been given to patients, officials said.
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-- BEIJING, June 12 (Reuters) -- Nearly two-thirds of Chinese cities suffered from air pollution last year and had no centralised sewage treatment facilities, state media reported on Tuesday.
"The report also found that the ratio of quality water in the major urban areas, either for drinking or industrial use, had dropped by 7.24 percent," the paper said.
Two hundred cities had no "centralised sewage management system" and 187 had no garbage disposal plants, it said.
On Monday night, an index measuring air pollution from Beijing's southern Daxing county read over 850 particles of "particulate matter" per square metre, which was eight times the norm, the Beijing News said.
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