Li Wenliang was forced to sign a letter accusing him of "making false comments" after warning fellow doctors of the coronavirus outbreak.
A Chinese doctor who was reprimanded by security police for warning fellow doctors about the initial coronavirus outbreak has died of the illness, according to Wuhan Central Hospital.
He died early Friday despite an"all-effort rescue" after contracting the virus Jan. 30, according to The People's Daily, the newspaper of China's Communist Party. In a posting on social media, Li alerted fellow doctors Dec. 30 about the emergence of a SARS-like illness, warning them to wear protective clothing to avoid infection, the newspaper said. Wuhan is the epicenter of the coronavirus that has claimed 565 lives among more than 28,300 cases.letter that accused him of"making false comments" that had"severely disturbed the social order," according to the BBC.
The chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention told the editor of the state-owned Global Times that China should praise the eight Wuhan whistleblowers.
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