{"id":14641,"date":"2020-02-18T14:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/18\/senior-wuhan-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus-as-authorities-start-to-round-up-patients"},"modified":"2020-02-18T14:09:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:09:34","slug":"senior-wuhan-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus-as-authorities-start-to-round-up-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14641","title":{"rendered":"Senior Wuhan doctor dies from coronavirus as authorities start to &#8216;round up&#8217; patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In city of 11m, officials threaten with punishment those who delay reporting symptoms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/18\/coronavirus-outbreak-updates-coronavirus-live-updates-hubei-deaths-china-wuhan-outbreak-apple-iphone-death-toll-latest-news\">Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of Wuhan\u2019s most senior doctors has died after contracting the coronavirus as authorities began a sweeping campaign inside the city to seek out patients infected with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Liu Zhiming had taken part in the battle against the virus from the start and had made important contributions in fighting and controlling Covid-19, the Wuhan municipal health commission said. During that process, \u201cunfortunately he became infected and passed away at 10:54 Tuesday morning at the age of 51 after all-out efforts to save him failed\u201d, the commission said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/18\/senior-wuhan-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus-as-authorities-start-to-round-up-patients\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In city of 11m, officials threaten with punishment those who delay reporting symptomsCoronavirus outbreak \u2013 live updatesOne of Wuhan\u2019s most senior doctors has died after contracting the coronavirus as authorities began a sweeping campaign inside the ci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[41,50,1069,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/14641","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14642,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641\/revisions\/14642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}