Doctor who blew the whistle on coronavirus dies
The Wuhan specialist, accused of 'illegal behaviour' for first alerting colleagues, had tested positive for the virus
A whistleblowing Chinese doctor, who was reprimanded for “spreading rumours” about the coronavirus before it was officially recognised, died on Friday after testing positive for the virus, reported the hospital where he had worked.
Dr Li Wenliang — an ophthalmologist at a hospital in Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the outbreak — was one of eight people reprimanded by Wuhan police last month for spreading “illegal and false” information about the coronavirus.
On 1 February, on China’s microblogging site Weibo, Dr Li revealed he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
On Friday, the Wuhan hospital where Dr Li had worked announced in a statement on its Weibo account that he had died at 2.58am local time. He was 34 years old.
