According to Chinese state television, the director of the Wuchang hospital in Wuhan, Dr. Liu Zhiming, died on Tuesday, February 18.02.2020, 19. The man died after contracting the coronavirus COVID-XNUMX.
Liu Zhiming died Tuesday in Chinese Wuhan from coronavirus infection. The man was the director of the Wuchang Hospital. This is the second high-profile death from the coronavirus in recent times. Li Wenliang died in early February. The doctor who first spoke about the threat of a new type of coronavirus in China.
Information about the death of the hospital director appeared on Monday evening. The Communist Party’s propaganda department of the Hubei Health Commission wrote on social media that Liu had died. However, in another message, there was information, confirmed by a relative of Liu, that the man is alive and doctors are still fighting for his recovery.
On Tuesday, it was reported that Liu Zhiming had died. In the previous week, Chinese officials said six medical workers had died from the virus and 1716 had been infected.
The COVID-19 coronavirus is a new type of coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019. Within two months, 73 people were infected with the new type of coronavirus (data from February 335, 18.02.2020), most of them in the Hubei province. The coronavirus has also spread to other countries, including Japan, Australia, Thailand, Macau, the United Arab Emirates, as well as France, Germany, Canada and the United States. As a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus, 1873 people died and 12 were healed.
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