{"id":13842,"date":"2020-02-07T00:55:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/whistleblower-chinese-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-02-07T00:55:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:55:53","slug":"whistleblower-chinese-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus-in-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13842","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Chinese doctor dies from coronavirus in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Wenliang targeted by police after warning about outbreak on social media in December<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/06\/coronavirus-live-updates-in-china-wuhan-coronaviruses-outbreak-death-toll-latest-update-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest developments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A whistleblowing Chinese doctor, who was among the first to raise concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, has died from the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Li Wenliang, 34, had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-51364382\">targeted by Chinese police<\/a> for \u201cspreading rumours\u201d after posting a warning on social media in late December 2019 about a cluster of cases of a flu-like disease that had been treated at his hospital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/whistleblower-chinese-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Wenliang targeted by police after warning about outbreak on social media in DecemberCoronavirus \u2013 latest developmentsA whistleblowing Chinese doctor, who was among the first to raise concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, has die&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,512,916,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}