The doctor started coughing and developed a fever after treating a patient at the hospital in Wuhan where he works.
About a month after Li Wenliang, a Chinese doctor, alerted his medical school classmates about a new coronavirus, he was diagnosed with it.
Since national authorities in China first reported 44 cases to the World Health Organization on December 31, more than 17,500 people have become infected and at least 362 people have died. The virus, temporarily named 2019-nCoV, is known to cause pneumonia and can spread between people, but the unfamiliarity of it has left officials with an uncertain picture of the risk it poses.
Although he intended the message to be shared privately, it circulated on social media and on January 3, local police reprimanded him for"spreading rumors online" and"severely disrupting social order." Police had Li sign a statement that acknowledged his"misdemeanor" and made him promise to not commit additional"unlawful acts."Newsweek
reached out to the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission but did not receive a response in time for publication. Medical staffs sterilize the main building of Jinyintan Hospital on January 22 in Wuhan, China. A doctor in Wuhan, who said he was called into a local police station after sending a message about the new coronavirus, has tested positive for the virus.Local authorities in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, faced pushback for downplaying the outbreak at the outset, cracking down on negative posts online and arresting people for"spreading rumors.
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