A 33-year-old ophthalmologist, who became a hero in China after alerting the world early about coronavirus outbreak has died of the disease.
Li Wenliang died at the Wuhan hospital where he was being treated on Friday, NAN reports.
Wenliang was fighting Coronavirus which has so far killed more than 600 people and infected tens of thousands.
Li had told state media that he had been cautioned by hospital management and party officials after alerting his colleagues about a cluster of infections tied to an animal market in the city of Wuhan.
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The doctor had suggested earlier that the disease was a resurgence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Li had raised the alarm about the virus that ultimately took his life.
In December, he posted in his medical school alumni group on the Chinese messaging app WeChat that seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and were quarantined in his hospital in Wuhan.
Soon after he posted the message, Li was accused of rumor-mongering by the Wuhan police.
He was one of several medics targeted by police for trying to blow the whistle on the deadly virus in the early weeks of the outbreak, which has sickened more than 28,000 people and killed more than 560. He later contracted the virus himself.
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Li was hospitalized on January 12 and tested positive for the coronavirus on February 1.
At least, 560 people have died worldwide from Coronavirus, which has since spread to almost 30 countries.
Nigeria Centre for Disease and Control (NCDC) has advised the public to wash their hands regularly with soap under running water.
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