{"id":61112,"date":"2020-02-07T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T04:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61112"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:21:33","slug":"doctor-who-alerted-world-about-coronavirus-dies-of-it-as-chinas-death-toll-surpasses-630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61112","title":{"rendered":"Doctor who alerted world about coronavirus dies of it as China&#8217;s death toll surpasses 630"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/16A3A\/production\/_110803729_mediaitem110803726.jpg\" alt=\"Li Wenliang\"\/><figcaption>Li Wenliang contracted the virus while working at Wuhan Central Hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIJING, Feb 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Chinese doctor, among the first to raise the alert about China&#8217;s new coronavirus, himself died from the pathogen on Friday, emphasizing the depth of a worsening crisis that has killed at least 630 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ophthalmologist Li Wenliang died at 2:58 am, Wuhan Central Hospital said in a post on its verified account on Chinese social media platform Weibo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old sent out a message about the new coronavirus to colleagues on Dec 30, but was later among eight whistleblowers summoned by police for &#8220;rumour-mongering.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He later contracted the disease while treating a patient and has been hailed as a hero by Chinese internet users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Li was among more than 28,000 people who have been infected in China, where authorities are struggling to contain the outbreak, despite ordering millions indoors in a growing number of cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two dozen countries have confirmed cases of the respiratory disease, which emerged from a market selling exotic animals in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Feb 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Chinese doctor, among the first to raise the alert about China&#8217;s new coronavirus, himself died from the pathogen on Friday, emphasizing the depth of a worsening crisis that has killed at least 630 people. Ophthalmologist Li Wenliang died at 2:58 am, Wuhan Central Hospital said in a post on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}