China launches probe after whistleblower doctor dies
China’s anti-graft watchdog announced Friday an
investigation after the death of a whistleblowing doctor sparked anger over the
government’s handling of the coronavirus emergency.
The discipline inspection commission said in a statement
that an investigative team would go to Wuhan, the virus-hit city where doctor
Li Wenliang died, to “conduct a comprehensive investigation into issues
involving Dr. Li Wenliang reported by the masses.”
The doctor who got in trouble with authorities in
the communist country for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus
outbreak died Friday after coming down with the illness.
The Wuhan Central Hospital said on its social media
account that Dr. Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, was “unfortunately
infected during the fight against the pneumonia epidemic of the new coronavirus
infection.”
