“If people want to pursue accountability (about the lockdown of Wuhan City due to the COVID-19 outbreak and Wuhan City Government below-standard handling of the outbreak) and the public has a strong opinion, we (Zhou Xianwang and Wuhan Communist Party Chief Ma Guoqiang) are willing to step down.”

— Zhou Xianwang

Zhou Xianwang (2020) cited in " Mayor of Wuhan, epicenter city of coronavirus, offers to resign over outbreak https://nypost.com/2020/01/27/mayor-of-wuhan-epicenter-city-of-coronavirus-offers-to-resign-over-outbreak/" on New York Post, 27 January 2019.

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