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   From: cracked-nut@sacbee.com   
      
   A Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the   
   deadly coronavirus outbreak has died, the hospital treating him   
   has said.   
      
   Li Wenliang contracted the virus while working at Wuhan Central   
   Hospital.   
      
   He had sent out a warning to fellow medics on 30 December but   
   police told him to stop "making false comments".   
      
   There had been contradictory reports about his death, but the   
   People's Daily now says he died at 02:58 on Friday (18:58 GMT   
   Thursday).   
      
   The virus has killed more than 560 people and infected 28,000 in   
   China.   
      
   Five need-to-know things about virus   
   It causes severe acute respiratory infection and symptoms   
   usually start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. Most people   
   infected are likely to fully recover - just as they would from a   
   flu.   
      
   How was the death reported?   
   Global Times, People's Daily and other Chinese media had   
   reported Dr Li's death earlier on Thursday.   
      
   Dr Li, 34, was initially declared dead at 21:30 local time and   
   the news triggered a huge wave of popular reaction on Weibo,   
   China's equivalent of Twitter.   
      
   The People's Daily sent out a tweet saying Dr Li's death had   
   sparked "national grief".   
      
   However, Global Times then said he had been given a treatment   
   known as ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation) which keeps   
   a person's heart pumping and keeps their blood oxygenated   
   without it going through their lungs.   
      
   Global Times said he was in a critical condition.   
      
   Journalists and doctors at the scene, who do not want their   
   names used, told the BBC and other media that government   
   officials had intervened.   
      
   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795   
         
      
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